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Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) (23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.
 * See also:
 * Rashomon (1950)
 * Ikiru (1952)
 * Seven Samurai (1954)
 * Yojimbo (1961)
 * Ran (1985)

Quotes

 * Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it.
 * Criterion Collection essay on Rashamon, excerpted from Something Like an Autobiography as translated by Audie E. Bock (1982)

 * In a mad world, only the mad are sane!
 * Ran (1985)

 * I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
 * On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79

 * A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.
 * Akira Kurosawa as quoted in Kamiski, Michael (2007). The Secret History of Star Wars(PDF). p. 48. Retrieved 2011-01-31.

Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

 * Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

 * No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is, and they would put an end to it. We are, after all, at a point where it is almost narrow-minded to think merely in geocentric terms. Human beings have launched satellites into outer space, and yet they still grovel on earth looking at their own feet like wild dogs. What is to become of our planet?

 * Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
 * Akira Kurosawa Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

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Talk:Aristotle

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I noticed that there was a quote from Nicomachaen Ethics (Book II Chapter 9 Para 1) listed as "Attributed" rather than in the N.E. section. I put the Nicomachaen Ethics quote ("..any one can get angry...") in the N.E. section. Being new to Wikiquote, I wasn't sure I should pull the slightly different Attributed quote out. Given the injunction to "be bold", I went ahead and did it anyway. (JesseFreeman)

I did the same thing as well as adding another significant quote from the NE (kopasa)

Thank you for your editing. Folks, how do you think we make effort to put the source as same as other books according Berlin academy edition? --Aphaia 10:21, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Made some preliminary edits for overhauling this page: (1) added "Note on references" to mention the Bekker numbers; (2) added "Sources"; (3) split out 3 mislabeled quotations from the Poetics and gave them the proper Bekker numbers. As time permits, I hope to add more Bekker numbers, eliminate incorrect quotations, etc.

Suggested standard: When citing by Bekker number, give only the line for the beginning of the quotation: e.g., '1402b3', not '1402b3-6'. Giving a range of lines is pedantic and cluttered. Grommel 20:51, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Blanking
I removed some objectionable stuff that was written here. (anon)
 * Thank you. I recommend you not only to remove it, but revert such version, if possible. --Aphaia 10:21, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I removed a the quote "'man is an animal whose characteristic it is to live in a city-state.'" H.D.F Kitto, whom the poster quoted, wrote, "'Man is a political animal' really means, 'man is an animal whose characteristic it is to live in a city-state'" (11). That is a normative statement, an interpretation, of the quote, "Man is a political animal," that can be found in the many English translations that I have read.

Diogenes, "What is love?"
I just looked through two versions of Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes, and I found the "love is a soul inhabiting two bodies" quotation, but not the other one listed below it: "Love is like the sun; without light, there's no life."

Does anyone know if it's in a different work by Diogenes? Or is the quote attributed to another philosopher rather than Aristotle? I can't find it.

Unsourced
Exactly what is said in Eth. Nic. 1170b6-7: ἑτερος γὰρ αὐτὸς ὁ φίλος ἐστίν.
 * Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
 * A friend is a second self.

 * A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

 * A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
 * All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

 * All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

 * All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

 * All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth

 * Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

 * Bad men are full of repentance.

 * Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

 * Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

 * Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

 * Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

 * Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
 * Jowett, Politics Book III Part VIII: "... democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." (http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.3.three.html)

 * Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

 * Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
 * Variants: Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

 * Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

 * Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all

 * Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

 * Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

 * For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

 * For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

 * Friendship is essentially a partnership.

 * Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

 * Happiness depends upon ourselves. [Mentioned in the "Disputed" section]

 * Happiness is a sort of action.

 * If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

 * In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

 * In modern times there are opposing views about the practice of education. There is no general agreement about what the young should learn either in relation to virtue or in relation to the best life; nor is it clear whether their education ought to be directed more towards the intellect than towards the character of the soul.... And it is not certain whether training should be directed at things useful in life, or at those conducive to virtue, or at non-essentials.... And there is no agreement as to what in fact does tend towards virtue. Men do not all prize most highly the same virtue, so naturally they differ also about the proper training for it.

 * In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

 * In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

 * In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

 * It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

 * It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

 * It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

 * It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

 * It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

 * It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Garbled version of Eth. Nic. 1093b23-25, πεπαιδευμένου γάρ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον τἀκριβὲς ἐπιζητεῖν καθ` ἕκαστον γένος. ἐφ`ὅσον ἡ τοῦ πράγματος φύσις ἐπιδέκεται (everything after "educated mind" is pure invention (the Greek actually says " ... to seek precision about anything just to the extent that the nature of its subject permits"

 * It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

 * Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

 * Melancholic men are of all others the most witty.

 * Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
 * Variant: Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

 * Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

 * Most people would rather give than get affection.

 * Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
 * Variant: This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Attributed to Aristotle by Seneca in On Tranquility of Mind
 * No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
 * Variants: No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

 * No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

 * Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

 * Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

 * Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

 * Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

 * Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

 * Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty— excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable— should persist after the beauty was gone.

 * That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

 * The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

 * The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

 * The complete is more than the sum of its pieces.
 * Variant: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

 * The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
 * Attributed to Aristotle; reported by Diogenes Laertius, in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, trans. R. D. Hicks (1942), vol. 1, book 5, section 19, p. 463. --174.135.87.95 05:22, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

 * The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
 * Variant: Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

 * The gods too are fond of a joke.

 * The good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

 * The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

 * The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
 * From Rhetoric, Book I, Chapter 9. A fuller quote is "The greatest virtues are necessarily those which are most useful to others, if virtue is the faculty of conferring benefits." --Hughh (talk) 03:56, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

 * The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

 * The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

 * The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire— the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale— and that alone can guide.

 * The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

 * The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

 * The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance

 * The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

---Not sure how to do it properly here, but this one is from Book V of Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. The Greek version is here http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/dl/dl05.html#aristotelis (it's the sentence beginning at verse 18) and there's an English translation here http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlaristotle.htm which is numbered differently.
 * The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

 * The secret to humor is surprise.

 * The soul never thinks without a picture.

 * The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

 * Teaching is the highest form of understanding

 * The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

 * The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

 * The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life— knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

 * Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

 * Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

 * Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

 * Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. (Physics)

 * To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

 * To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

 * To perceive is to suffer.

 * To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

 * We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

 * We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

 * Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd rather have been talking.

 * What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

 * What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

 * Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

 * Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

 * With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

 * You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

 * Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

 * Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

 * Nature performs nothing vainly, and makes nothing unnecessary.

"Amicus Plato..."
I've heard this expression bears some relation to Ammonius Saccas.

"Worst form of inequality ..."
Origin appears to be in this 1974 Time article. I don't have access: can anyone find author and date? Gordonofcartoon 05:04, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

A similar statement does appear in Politics VII 3.5 (i.e. 1325b): "But that the unequal should be given to equals, and the unlike to those who are like, is contrary to nature, and nothing which is contrary to nature is good."

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life"
I noticed that the line: "The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." was in the disputed section with the comment that it ought to be in the Nicomachean Ethics, but research "has thus far not found it." I had a look myself and eventually found it as "the truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow" in the Rackham translation at perseus.tufts. I don't have the precise Bekker number but I've added it to this page with "I.1101a". I don't know which is the best translation, but I've gone with Rackham. Singinglemon 23:06, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

"we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"
Under "Misattributed" is the entry (copied and pasted from the article):

 * We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The passage from Aristotle is then cited, and within it is the following verbatim extract (copied and pasted from the article):

 * we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit

How is this then a misattribution? Punctuation? Capitalisation? It seems to me that the quote is Aristotle's actual words (or the translation thereof) and is in addition a true rendition of the meaning of the larger section itself. I suggest the quote is moved to the body of the article under Sourced. LookingGlass (talk) 21:18, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

 * The quote is not from Aristotle, it is from Will Durant discussing Aristotle. This is a simple case of The Rules of Misquotation, Corollary 2C: "Comments made about someone might as well have been said by that person." ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:47, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free"

 * He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
 * Variant: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
 * Quoted in Florilegium by Joannes Stobaeus

Neither a specific citation is given, nor a reference to a secondary source. --Omnipaedista (talk) 14:21, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

"How many a dispute..."
Poorly sourcedː
 * How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
 * Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our time by Laurence J. Peter. Bantam books, 1977. p. 24.
 * --Omnipaedista (talk) 23:31, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

François Fénelon and quote about "Chicken or the egg" problem?
it was questioned by Math in 2015

I cannot find "egg" in wikiquote.

Eggs were discussed in en:wikisource:History of Animals (Thompson) but question should be indirect.

I don't have time to review all works from Aristotle. D1gggg (talk) 15:16, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Quote removed from page.
The following quote was removed from the page by another editor. Please discuss whether it should be included on the page. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:33, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It is difficult to be enthusiastic about Aristotle, because it was difficult for him to be enthusiastic about anything… He realized too completely the Delphic command to avoid excess: he is so anxious to pare away extremes that at last nothing is left. He is so fearful of disorder that he forgets to be fearful of slavery; he.is so timid of uncertain change that he prefers a certain changelessness that near resembles death. He lacks that Heraclitean sense of flux which justifies the conservative in believing that all permanent change is gradual, and justifies the radical in believing that no changelessness is permanent. He forgets that Plato’s communism was meant only for the elite, the unselfish and ungreedy few; and he comes deviously to a Platonic result when he says that though property should be private, its use should be as far as possible common. He does not see (and perhaps he could not be expected in his early day to see) that individual control of the means of production was stimulating and salutary only when these means were so simple as to be purchasable by any man; and that their increasing complexity and cost lead to a dangerous centralization of ownership and power, and to an artificial and finally disruptive inequality.
 * Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926), reprinted in Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, 1991

On his feet he wore ...blisters
This supposed quote appears in many places, but I haven't found a citation to Aristotle. Can someone help? TomS TDotO (talk) 21:11, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Roger Federer

Last 2 quotes in attributed dont have sources. Can somebody suppy them please. Quotes by Roger are better sourced with asapsports.com as they contain actual press conference interviews and they are more permanent than news website articles. However asapsports.com also reorganise their pages so when time permits can editors please check the links of sources. --jagbot

What do I do with a whole page of quotes about federer, like this? http://www.rogerfedererbook.com/quotes.php
 * Quote Pages

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced or inadequately sourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Roger Federer. --Antiquary 15:12, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

 * They dont know an unforced error from a croissant' - taking a dig at the match statisticians in French Open 2007.
 * I fear no one, but respect everyone.
 * You can never be bigger than the game and I think you always have to remember that.
 * Oui, c'est moi [Yes, it's me].
 * To the audience just after losing to Rafael Nadal in their 3rd successive French Open final (2008).
 * He's like a cat with seven lives...Nine lives? How many do they have? [Questioner: Nine.]. Yeah, I thought so. Seven would have been easy.
 * On Lleyton Hewitt after his semfinal win at Cincinnati Masters, 2007.
 * Oh, I wish my cow was here to see this. (after a great point against André Agassi,(Rally For Relief, 2005) referring to the cow he was given after winning Wimbledon 2003.
 * It's nice to be important, but it's most important to be nice. (when he was asked about his popularity after winning Wimbledon 2007)
 * It's great...being there till the end, seeing an empty locker room and a full stadium.
 * On regularly reaching finals of many top tournaments.

 * Because people sometimes miss it, and sometimes they don't have it, they want it. And when they have it, they don't want it.

 * I should have won earlier after having 15-40 a couple of times but it needed a tiebreak because he hangs in there. He’s like a cat, with seven lives. How many do they have? Nine, yeah, thought so, seven would have been easy.
 * After defeating Hewitt in the semi final of Cincinnati Masters 2007

About Roger Federer (unsourced)

 * Roger Federer is definitely the best tennis player of all-time. He is the perfect tennis player. Some players are great physically, some mentally, and others technically, Roger is all of them.  He has no weaknesses.  You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.  He is the complete player.  When I played against him I always had the feeling that I had to play the perfect match and still hope that he had a bad day.
 * Marat Safin, being asked who is the greatest of all-time
 * In my opinion he's the best player ever. When you play tennis, playing Federer is kind of a dream because you can see he does everything you would love to do on the court.
 * Fabrice Santoro, who played 20 of the 24 players to hold the No. 1 South African Airways ATP Ranking
 * He’s the most complete tennis player in the history of tennis, that’s for sure. With all due respects to (Andre) Agassi and (Pete) Sampras and the rest of the gang. But I never felt so uncomfortable against any of the players before.
 * Marat Safin, after losing 2009 Australian Open 3rd Round to Federer
 * I had a great tournament but I came up against, in my opinion, the best player ever to play the game today.
 * Andy Murray, after losing 2008 US Open Final to Federer
 * He's an artist on this surface. He can stay back. He can come in. No weaknesses. Federer could win Wimbledon six, seven, eight times. He can play on any kind of surface, he is so complete. And if he continues the way he has been doing and stays away from injuries and still has the motivation, he will be the greatest player ever. I think the motivation is the key thing and he has the motivation to continue to play for another three or five years.
 * Bjorn Borg, winner of 11 Grand Slams, at Wimbledon 2007.
 * He's probably the greatest player that ever lived.
 * John McEnroe, BBC Wimbledon 2006 live broadcast.
 * He can beat half the guys with his eyes closed!
 * John McEnroe, BBC Wimbledon 2006 live broadcast.
 * If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.
 * John McEnroe.
 * He's probably the most talented person to ever carry a racquet around—the shots that he can come up with, the way he's kind of become a totally complete player. But I think off the court, it's huge. There have been a lot of good champions, but he's just classy. He is never high and mighty in the locker room or anything like that.
 * Andy Roddick.
 * Roger is at the top, and he's the only person at the top, regardless of how much people want to make rivalry comparisons and this, that and the other. He's the best player in the game. There's no question in my mind.
 * Andy Roddick, after losing to Federer in the Final of 2006 US Open.
 * We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game a way I haven't seen anyone—and I mean anyone—play before. How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated—and the wonderful feel he has stays with him—he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.
 * Boris Becker, winner of 6 Grand Slams.
 * Roger Federer is the only guy I watch for his strokes. He is just beautiful. He can hit every single shot you could ever think of. John [McEnroe] and Ilie [Nastase] were very talented but you always knew there were some shots they couldn't hit. Not with Federer. I would go and watch him practice, he's so good.
 * Ivan Lendl, winner of 8 Grand Slams.
 * I've never enjoyed watching someone playing tennis as much as Federer. I'm just in awe. Pete Sampras was wonderful but he relied so much on his serve, whereas Roger has it all, he's just so graceful, elegant and fluid—a symphony in tennis whites. Roger can produce tennis shots that should be declared illegal.
 * Tracy Austin.
 * He's the best player I've ever played against, full stop ... and he was just too good today.
 * Tim Henman, after losing in the 2nd round of Wimbledon 2006 6-4, 6-0, 6-2.
 * He's Roger. What can you say?
 * Mario Ancic after their quarter final at Wimbledon 2006.
 * He's not just number one, he's the best in history. He has 12 Grand Slams and I'm sure he'll get the record (14). He can do it all. He serves very well, he has a very good forehand and backhand. He has no weak points.
 * David Ferrer after his loss in Shanghai 2007
 * It was pretty loud when we were in training...We talked more than we trained, training didn't seem too important to us. We just wanted to have a good time and we goofed around a lot. One of us was frequently kicked off the court. Roger lost to practically everyone in training. He was the only one that I beat, but the difference was enormous. When it came down to business, he could flip a switch and become a completely different person. I admired that about him. I could give him a thrashing in training but when we played at a tournament together, he gave me a thrashing. Even back then he was a real competitor. Soon after enrolling in school at the age of six, Federer became the best in his age group and trained three times a week in and around Basel.
 * Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player, commenting on Federer's Junior Years
 * I played unbelievable, and if it was not Roger Federer on the other side of the net I would have won, 400 per cent.
 * Tomas Berdych, No. 10 in the world, Davis Cup tie, Sept. 23, 2007
 * First, no way I would be a journalist. You guys have tried to kill Roger - often. But he's always come back and proved you wrong. So one thing I would not do is make the mistake of saying Roger is dead.
 * Rafael Nadal, when asked what he would write about Federer's decline if he were a journalist

 * What has delighted me in the last two weeks: Roger comes to the practice with a freshness in his head as he would when he was a junior. I’m really fascinated. It sparkles in his eyes. If I say, 'You are going to have 1 ½ days off,' he says, 'Maybe it’s fine tomorrow, maybe we can train.' That shows me that he has the right mental attitude.
 * Pierre Paganini, Federer's fitness instructor

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Talk:Ulysses (novel)

Joyce's Molly Bloom soliloquy is parodied in the closing minutes of the Firesign Theatre's album "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All"

title: Talk:Ulysses (novel)


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Fargo (film)

Fargo is a 1996 film about an inept car salesman's attempted crime which falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistence of a pregnant police officer.
 * Directed by Joel Coen. Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.

Small town. Big crime. Dead cold. Taglines

Opening Text

 * THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

 * The events depicted in this film
 * took place in Minnesota in 1987.

 * At the request of the survivors,
 * the names have been changed.

 * Out of respect for the dead,
 * the rest has been told exactly
 * as it occurred.

Marge Gunderson

 * [on the phone] Oh my. Where? Yeah? Aw geez. Okay, there in a jif. Real good, then.
 * [after her husband, Norm, kisses her] Ya got Arby's all over me.
 * [repeated line] Mind if I sit down? I'm carrying quite a load here.
 * So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it.

Jerry Lundegaard

 * [Practices calling Wade] Yah, Wade, It's Jerry, I... Yah, Wade, it's, I, it's Jerry... I don't know what to do it's Jean. I don't know what to do it's my wife. I don't know what to do it's Jean. Wade, it's Jerry, I... Wade, it's Jerry! We gotta talk! Oh, geez, it's terrible... [calls the number] Yah, Wade Gustafson, please.
 * I answered the darn - I'm cooperating here!

Carl Showalter

 * Would you crack the fuckin' window open, man. You know, it's proven that second-hand smoke is, uh, carcin-... uh, you know, a cancer agent.
 * Keep it still back there, lady, or else we're gonna have to, ya know, to shoot ya.
 * Just in town on business. Just in and out. Ha. Just a little of the old in-and-out.
 * Shep! What the hell are you doing! I was bangin' that girl!
 * Stay away from me, man! Hey, go smoke a fuckin' peace pipe!

Others

 * Gaear Grimsrud: You're a smooth, smoothie, yah know?
 * Wade Gustafson: It's my money. I'll deliver it - what do they care?...They want my money, they can deal with me.
 * Wade Gustafson: Look, Jerry, you're not selling me a damn car. It's my show here.
 * Mike Yanagita: Ya know, it's the Radisson, so it's pretty good.
 * Mike Yanagita: So ya went and married Norm Son-of-a-Gunderson!
 * Shep Proudfoot: [beating Carl violently] Fucking little fucking weasel! Fuck you! You fucking motherfucking son of a fucking bitching fucking cunt! Jesus fucking Christ you fucking shitfuckbag motherfucker!

Dialogue

 * [Jerry meets Carl and Grimsrud sitting at the bar]
 * Jerry: I'm, uh, Jerry Lundegaard.
 * Carl: You're Jerry Lundegaard?
 * Jerry: Yah. Shep Proudfoot said--
 * Carl: Shep said you'd be here at 7:30. What gives now?
 * Jerry: [confused] Shep said 8:30.
 * Carl: We've been sitting here an hour. He’s peed three times already.
 * Jerry: Ah, I'm terribly sorry. Shep told me 8:30. It was a mix-up, I guess.
 * Carl: You got the car?
 * Jerry: Yah, you bet! It's in the lot there. Brand-new burnt umber Ciera.
 * Carl: Yeah, okay, well, sit down then. [Jerry takes a seat] I'm Carl Showalter and this is my associate Gaear Grimsrud.
 * Jerry: Yah, how ya doin'. So, we all set on this thing, then?
 * Carl: Sure, Jerry, we're all set. Why wouldn't we be?
 * Jerry: Yah, no, I'm sure you are. Shep vouched for you and all. I got every confidence in you fellas. [smiles at Grimsrud] So, I guess that's it, then. Here are the keys...
 * Carl: No, that's not it, Jerry.
 * Jerry: Huh?
 * Carl: The new vehicle, plus forty thousand dollars.
 * Jerry: Yah, but the deal was, the car first, see, then the forty thousand, like as if it was the ransom. I thought Shep told ya?
 * Carl: Shep didn't tell us much, Jerry.
 * Jerry: Well, okay...
 * Carl: Except that you were gonna be here at 7:30.
 * Jerry: Yah, well, that was a mix-up, then.
 * Carl: Yeah, you already said that.
 * Jerry: Yah. But it's not a whole pay-in-advance deal. I give you a brand-new vehicle in advance and--
 * Carl: I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry.
 * Jerry: Okay.
 * Carl: I'm not gonna sit here and debate. I will say this though, what Shep told us didn't make a whole lot of sense.
 * Jerry: Oh, no, it's real sound. It's all worked out.
 * Carl: You want your own wife kidnapped?
 * Jerry: Yah.
 * Carl: You... My point is, you pay the ransom what eighty thousand bucks? I mean, you give us half the ransom, forty thousand, you keep half. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, it doesn't make any sense.
 * Jerry: [laughs] Okay, see, it's not me payin' the ransom. The thing is, my wife, she's wealthy. Her dad, he's real well off. Now, I'm in a bit of trouble--
 * Carl: What kinda trouble are you in, Jerry?
 * Jerry: Well, that's... that's... I'm not go inta, inta... see, I just need money. Now, her dad's real well off.
 * Carl: So? Why don't you just ask him for the money?
 * Grimsrud: Or your fucking wife, you know.
 * Carl: Or your fucking wife, Jerry?
 * Jerry: Well, it's all just part of this... They don't know I need it, see. Okay, so there's that. And even if they did, I wouldn't get it. So there's that on top, then. See, these're personal matters.
 * Carl: Personal matters?
 * Jerry: Yah. Personal matters that needn't, uh...
 * Carl: Okay, Jerry. You're tasking us to perform this mission, but you, you won't, uh, you won't... Aw, fuck it, let's take a look at that Ciera.

 * Jerry: - I'm the executive sales manager.
 * Marge: - Yah, but I understand...
 * Jerry: - We run a pretty tight ship here.
 * Marge: - I know, but how do they establish that? Are the cars counted daily, or what kind of a routine here?
 * Jerry: Ma'am! I answered your question.
 * Marge: - I'm sorry, sir?
 * Jerry: - Ma'am, I answered your question.
 * Jerry: I answered the darn damn good question ... I'm cooperating here, and there's no...
 * Marge: Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me. I'm just doing my job here.
 * Jerry: Ok ...
 * Marge: ookie --

 * Scotty: [finishing supper] May I be excused?
 * Jerry: Ya done, there?
 * Scotty: Yah. Can I go out?
 * Jean: Where ya goin'?
 * Scotty: Just to McDonald's.
 * Jerry: Be back at 9:30.
 * Wade: He just ate - he didn't finish! He's goin' to MAC-Donalds instead of finishin' here.
 * Jean: He sees his friends there. It's okay.
 * Wade: It's okay? Whaddya think they do there? They don't drink milkshakes, I assure you.
 * Jean: It's okay, Dad!
 * Jerry: Wade, have ya had a chance to think about, uh, that deal I was talkin' about, those forty acres there on Wayzata?
 * Wade: You told me about it.
 * Jerry: Yah, you said you'd have a think about it. I understand it's a lot of money...
 * Wade: A heck of a lot. What'd you say you were gonna put there?
 * Jerry: A lot. It's a limited...
 * Wade: I know it's a lot.
 * Jerry: I mean a parking lot.
 * Wade: Yah, well, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a lot.
 * Jerry: Yah, well, it's a chunk, but...
 * Wade: I used to own a lot myself way back in the late '50's. It's a lotta money.
 * Jerry: Yah, well...
 * Wade: I thought you were gonna show it to Stan Grossman. He passes on this stuff before it gets kicked up to me.
 * Jerry: Well, you know Stan'll say no dice. That's why you pay him. I'm askin' you here, Wade. This could work out real good for me and Jean and Scotty.
 * Wade: Jean and Scotty'll never have to worry.

 * Grimsrud: Where is Pancakes House?
 * Carl: What?
 * Grimsrud: We stop at Pancakes House.
 * Carl: What are ya nuts? We had pancakes for breakfast. I want to go somewhere I can get a shot and a beer, and a steak, maybe. No more fuckin' pancakes, c'mon man. C'mon man! Okay here's an idea. We'll stop outside of Brainerd. I know a place there we can get laid. What do ya think?
 * Grimsrud: I'm fuckin' hungry now, you know!
 * Carl: Yeah, yeah. Jesus. I was just saying we could stop, get pancakes, and get laid.

 * Jerry: [''pretending to talk to his "boss"] You goin' to the Gophers on Sunday?
 * Salesman: Oh you betchya.
 * Jerry: You wouldn't happen to have an extra ticket?
 * Salesman: You kidin'!?
 * [Jerry returns to the customer]
 * Jerry: Well... He never done this before, but seeing as it's special circumstances and all, he says I can knock a hundred dollars off that Trucoat.
 * Irate customer: One hundred... You lied to me, Mr Lundegaard. You're a bald-faced liar. A... fucking liar!
 * Customer's wife: Bucky, please.
 * Irate customer: Where's my goddamn check book? Lets get this over with.

 * Jerry: Say, Shep, how ya doin' there? Say, uh, ya know those two fellas ya put me in touch with up there in Fargo?
 * Shep: Put you in touch with Grimsrud.
 * Jerry: Yah, well, he had a buddy there. He, um...
 * Shep: I didn't vouch for him.
 * Jerry: Well, that's okay.
 * Shep: I vouch for Grimsrud. Who's his buddy?
 * Jerry: Uh, Carl somethin'?
 * Shep: Never heard of him. Don't vouch for him.
 * Jerry: Well, that's okay, he's a buddy of the guy ya vouched for, so I'm not worryin'. I just, I was wondering, see, I gotta get in touch with 'em for. See this deal I've been working on, I might not need it anymore, sumpn's happenin', see.
 * Shep: Call 'em up.
 * Jerry: Yah, well, see, I did that, and I haven't been able to get 'em, so I thought you maybe'd know an alternate number or what have you.
 * Shep: Nope.
 * Jerry: [optimistic] Okay! Well, real good, then.

 * [Carl and Gaear are driving into Minneapolis]
 * Carl: Hey, look at that. Twin Cities. That's the IDS Building, the big glass one. Tallest skyscraper in the Midwest - after the uh, Sears, in, uh, Chicago, or John Hancock Building, whatever. You ever been to Minneapolis?
 * Grimsrud: Nope.
 * Carl: Would it kill you to say something?
 * Grimsrud: I did.
 * Carl: "No." That's the first thing you've said in the last four hours. That's a, that's a fountain of conversation, man. That's a geyser. I mean, whoa, daddy, stand back, man. Shit. You know I'm sittin' here drivin', doin' all the drivin', man, the whole fuckin' way from Brainerd, drivin', just tryin' to chat, you know, keep our spirits up, fight the boredom of the road, and you can't say one fuckin' thing just in the way of conversation? Well, fuck it. I don't have to talk either, man. See how you like it. [Pause] Just total fuckin' silence. Two can play at that game, smart guy. We'll just see how you like it. Total silence.

 * Deifenbach: Mr. Lundegaard, this is Reilly Deifenbach calling from GMAC. How are you this morning?
 * Jerry: Yah, real good. How you doin'?
 * Deifenbach: Pretty good, Mr. Lundegaard. You're damned hard to get on the phone.
 * Jerry: Yah, it's pretty darned busy here, but that's the way we like it.
 * Deifenbach: That's for sure. Now, I just need, on these last, these financing documents you sent us, I can't read the serial numbers of the vehicles on here, so I--
 * Jerry: But I already got the, it's okay, the loans are in place, I already got the, the what, the--
 * Deifenbach: Yeah, the three hundred and twenty thousand, you got the money last month.
 * Jerry: Yah, so we're all set.
 * Deifenbach: Yeah, but the vehicles you were borrowing on, I just can't read the serial numbers on your application. Maybe if you could just read them to me--
 * Jerry: But the deal's already done, I already got the money.
 * Deifenbach: Yeah, but we have an audit here, I just have to know that these vehicles you're financing with this money, that they really exist.
 * Jerry: Yah, well, they exist all right.
 * Deifenbach: I'm sure they do, but I can't read their serial numbers here. So if you could read me--
 * Jerry: Well, but see... I don't have them in front of me. Why don't I just fax you over a copy?
 * Deifenbach: No. Fax is no good, that's what I have and I can't read the darn thing.
 * Jerry: Yah, okay, I'll have my girl send you over a copy, then.
 * Deifenbach: Okay, because if I can't correlate this note with the specific vehicles, then I gotta call back that money.
 * Jerry: Yah, how much money was that?
 * Deifenbach: Three hundred and twenty thousand. See, I gotta correlate that money with the cars it's being lent on.
 * Jerry: Yah, no problem, I'll just fax that over to ya, then.
 * Deifenbach: No, no, fax is--
 * Jerry: I mean send it over! I'll shoot it right over to ya.
 * Deifenbach: Okay.
 * Jerry: Okay, real good, then.

 * [In struggling to get Jean under control, she bites Gaear's right hand]
 * Gaear Grimsrud: [lifts up his mask and looks at the bite as Carl heads up the stairs behind Jean] Unguent.
 * Carl Showalter: What?!
 * Gaear Grimsrud: I need Unguent!

 * Jerry Lundegaard: How ya doin' there, Stan? How are ya, Wade?
 * Stan Grossman: Good to see ya again, Jerr'. If these numbers are right, this looks pretty sweet.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Oh, those numbers are right, all right. Believe me.
 * Wade Gustafson: This is doable.
 * Stan Grossman: Congratulations, Jerry.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, thanks, Stan, it's a pretty--
 * Wade Gustafson: What kind of finder's fee were you looking for?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Huh?
 * Stan Grossman: The financials are pretty thorough, so the only thing we don't know is your fee.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: My fee? Wade, what the heck're you talkin' about?
 * Wade Gustafson: Stan and I're okay.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah.
 * Wade Gustafson: We're good to loan in.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah.
 * Wade Gustafson: But we never talked about your fee for bringin' it to us.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: No, but, Wade, see, I was bringin' you this deal for you to loan me the money to put in. It's my deal here, see?
 * Stan Grossman: Jerry, we thought you were bringin' us an investment.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, right.
 * Stan Grossman: You're sayin'... What're you sayin'?
 * Wade Gustafson: You're sayin' that we put in all the money and you collect when it pays off?
 * [Wade and Stan laugh]
 * Jerry Lundegaard: No, no. I- I 'd, pay you back the principal, and interest. Heck, I'd go one over prime?
 * Stan Grossman: We're not a bank, Jerry.
 * Wade Gustafson: What the heck, Jerry, if I wanted bank interest on seven hundred fifty thousand I'd go to Midwest Federal. Talk to Bill Diehl.
 * Stan Grossman: He's at Norstar.
 * Wade Gustafson: He's at--
 * Jerry Lundegaard: No, see, I don't need a finder's fee, I need a... finder's fee's, what, ten percent? Heck, that's not gonna do it for me. I need the principal!
 * Stan Grossman: Jerry, we're not just going to give you seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars!
 * Wade Gustafson: What the heck were you thinkin'? Heck, if I'm only gettin' bank interest, I'd look for complete security. Heck, FDIC. I don't see nothin' like that here.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, but I... Okay, I would, I'd guarantee ya your money back.
 * Wade Gustafson: I'm not talkin' about your damn word, Jerry! Geez, what the heck're you--
 * Stan Grossman: We’re not a bank, Jerry.
 * Wade Gustafson: Well, look, I don't want to cut you out of the loop, but this here's a good deal. I assume, if you're not interested, you won't mind if we move on it. Independently.

 * Gaear Grimsrud: [to Jean] Shut the fuck up! Or I'll throw you back into the trunk, you know.
 * Carl Showalter: Geez. That's more'n I've heard you say all week.

 * State Trooper: This is a new car, then, sir?
 * Carl: It certainly is, officer. Still got that smell.

 * Marge: Okay, so we got a trooper pulls someone over, we got a shooting. These folks drive by, there's a high-speed pursuit, ends here, and then this execution-type deal.
 * Lou: Yah.
 * Marge: I'd be very surprised if our suspect was from Brainerd.
 * Lou: Yah!
 * Marge: And I'll tell you what, from his footprint he looks like a big fella... [bends over]
 * Lou: See somethin' down there, Chief?
 * Marge: No, I just think I'm gonna barf.
 * Lou: Geez. You okay there, Margie?
 * Marge: Yah, I'm fine. [stands up straight] It's just morning sickness. Well, that passed.
 * Lou: Oh yah?
 * Marge: Yah, now I'm hungry again.
 * Lou: You eat breakfast yet, Margie?
 * Marge: Oh yah. Norm made some eggs.
 * Lou: Yah? Well, what now d'ya think?
 * Marge: Lets go take a look at that trooper.

 * [Lou and Marge are driving away from the crime scene]
 * Lou: The last vehicle that the trooper cited was a tan Ciera at 2:18 AM. Under the plate number, he put DLR - I figure they stopped him or shot him before he could finish fillin' out the tag number... So I got the state lookin' for a Ciera with a tag startin' DLR. They don't got no match yet.
 * Marge: I'm not sure that I agree with you a hundred percent on your policework there, Lou.
 * Lou: Yah?
 * Marge: Yah. I think that vehicle there probably had dealer plates. DLR?
 * Lou: Oh... Geez.
 * Marge: Say Lou. Did ya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L 2404?
 * Lou: Yah, that's a good one.

 * Stan Grossman: Okay. We'll get the money together. Don't worry about it, Jerry. Now, d'you want anyone at home, with you, until they call?
 * Jerry: No, I- they don't want- they're just s'posed to be dealin' with me, they were real clear. Ya know, they said no one listenin' in, they'll be watchin', ya know. Maybe it's all bull, but like you said, Stan, they're callin' the shots.
 * Stan Grossman: Okay. And Scotty, is he gonna be all right?
 * Jerry: Yah... Geez... Scotty. I'll go talk to him.

 * Jerry: How ya doin' there, Scotty?
 * Scotty: [crying] Dad... What're they doing? What do ya think they're doin' with Mom?
 * Jerry: It's okay, Scotty. They're not gonna want to hurt her any. These men... they just want money.
 * Scotty: What if... What if sumpn goes wrong, Dad?
 * Jerry: No, no, nothin's goin' wrong here. Grandad and I, we're- we're makin' sure this gets handled right.
 * Scotty: I really think we should call the cops, ya know.
 * Jerry: No. No one can know about this thing. We gotta play ball with these guys. You ask Stan Grossman, he'll tell ya the same thing!
 * Scotty: Yeah, but Dad--
 * Jerry: We're gonna get Mom back for ya, but we gotta play ball. Ya know, that's the deal. So if Lorraine calls, or Sylvia, you just say that Mom's down in Florida with Pearl and Marty. That's the best we can do here.

 * Hooker #2: Yeah, we both did. She went to college too.
 * Hooker #1: I went to Normandale for about a year'n-a-half.
 * Hooker #2: Yah, that's where we met.
 * Hooker #1: But I dropped out though.
 * Hooker #2: Yah, she dropped.
 * Hooker #1: Yah!
 * Marge: So, where you girls from?
 * Hooker #1: Chaska.
 * Hooker #2: Le Sueur. But I went to high school in White Bear Lake. Go Bears.
 * Marge: Okay. I want you to tell me what these fellas looked like.
 * Hooker #1: Well, the little guy, he was kinda funny-looking.
 * Marge: In what way?
 * Hooker #1: I dunno, just funny-lookin'.
 * Marge: Can you be any more specific?
 * Hooker #1: I couldn't really say. He wasn't circumcised.
 * Marge: Was he funny lookin' apart from that?
 * Hooker #1: Yeah.
 * Marge: So, you were having sex with the little fella then?
 * Hooker #1: Uh-huh.
 * Marge: Is there anything else you can tell me about him?
 * Hooker #1: No. Like I say, he was funny lookin'. More n' most people even.
 * Marge: And what about the other fella?
 * Hooker #2: He was a little older. You know, looked like the Marlboro man.
 * Marge: Oh yah?
 * Hooker #2: Yah. But maybe I'm sayin' that, you know, cause he smoked Marlboros.
 * Marge: Uh-huh.
 * Hooker #2: You know, like a subconscious-type thing.
 * Marge: Yah, that can happen.
 * Hooker #2: Yah.
 * Hooker #1: They said they were goin' to the Twin Cities?
 * Marge: Oh, yah?
 * Hooker #2: Yah!
 * Hooker #1: Yah. Is that useful to ya?
 * Marge: Oh, you betchya, yah.

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 * [Jerry answers the phone at his office]
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Jerry Lundegaard.
 * Carl Showalter: All right, Jerry, you got this phone to yourself?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Well... yah.
 * Carl Showalter: Know who this is?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Well, yah, I got an idea. How's that Ciera workin' out for ya?
 * Carl Showalter: Circumstances have changed, Jerry.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Well... what do ya mean?
 * Carl Showalter: Things have changed. Circumstances, Jerry. Beyond the, uh, acts of God, force majeure-
 * Jerry Lundegaard: What the... how's Jean?
 * Carl Showalter: Who's Jean?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: My wife! What the- how's...
 * Carl Showalter: Oh, Jean's okay, but there's three people up in Brainerd who aren't so okay, I'll tell ya that.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: What the heck're you talkin' about? Let's just finish up this deal here -
 * Carl Showalter: Blood has been shed, Jerry.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: What the heck ya mean?
 * Carl Showalter: Three people. In Brainerd.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Oh, geez.
 * Carl Showalter: That's right and we need more money.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: The heck d'ya mean? What a you fellas get yourself mixed up in?
 * Carl Showalter: We need more -
 * Jerry Lundegaard: This was s'posed to be a no-rough-stuff-type deal...
 * Carl Showalter: DON'T EVER INTERRUPT ME, JERRY! JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Well, I'm sorry, but I just - I -
 * Carl Showalter: Look, I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry. The price is now the whole amount. We want the entire $80,000.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Oh, for Christ sakes here...
 * Carl Showalter: Blood has been shed. We've incurred risks, Jerry. I'm coming into town tomorrow. Have the money ready.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Now we had a deal. A deal's a deal.
 * Carl Showalter: Is it, Jerry? Why don't you ask those three poor souls in Brainerd if a deal's a deal. Go ahead, ask them!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: The heck do ya mean?
 * Carl Showalter: [mimicking] "The heck ya mean?" I'll see you tomorrow.
 * [Jerry hangs up, but the phone rings again]
 * Jerry Lundegaard: YAH!
 * Reilly Deifenbach: Jerome Lundegaard?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah.
 * Reilly Deifenbach: This is Reilly Deifenbach at GMAC. Sir, I have not yet received those vehicle ID's you promised me.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah! I... Those are in the mail.
 * Reilly Deifenbach: That very well may be. I must inform you, however, that absent the receipt of those numbers by tomorrow afternoon, I will have to refer this matter to our legal department.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah.
 * Reilly Deifenbach: My patience is at an end.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah.
 * Reilly Deifenbach: Good day, sir.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah.
 * [Jerry hangs up and slams his binder on his desk]

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 * Officer Olson: Hiya, Norm. How ya doin' Margie? How's the fricassee?
 * Marge: Pretty darn good, ya want some?
 * Officer Olson: No, I gotta-- hey, Norm, I thought you were goin' fishin' up at Mille Lacs?
 * Norm: Yah, after lunch.
 * Officer Olson: Ah.
 * Marge: Whatcha got there?
 * Officer Olson: The numbers y'asked for. Calls made from the lobby pay phone at the Blue Ox. Two to Minneapolis that night. First one's a trucking company, second one's a private residence. A Shep Proudfoot.
 * Marge: Uh-huh... A what?
 * Officer Olson: Shep Proudfoot. That's a name.
 * Marge: Oh. Yah, okay, I think I'll drive down there, then.
 * Officer Olson: Oh, yah? Twin Cities?
 * Norm: [to Marge] Oh yah?

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 * Wade Gustafson: Damn it! I wanna be a part of this thing!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: No, Wade! They were real clear! They said they'd call tomorrow with instructions and it's gonna be delivered by me alone!
 * Wade Gustafson: It's my money, I'll deliver it - what do they care?
 * Stan Grossman: Wade's got a point there. I'll handle the call if you want, Jerry.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: No, no. See - they, no, see, they only deal with me. Ya feel this, this nervousness on the phone there, they're very - these guys're dangerous.
 * Wade Gustafson: All the more reason! I don't want you - with all due respect, Jerry, I don't want you mucking this up.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: The heck ya mean?
 * Wade Gustafson: They want my money, they can deal with me. Otherwise I'm goin' to a professional. There's a million dollars here!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: No, see -
 * Wade Gustafson: Look, Jerry, you're not sellin' me a damn car! It's my show here. That's that.
 * Stan Grossman: It's the way we prefer to handle it, Jerry.

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 * [Carl has gone by a parking garage to put Minnesota plates over his Ciera's temporary tags]
 * Attendant: Hi.
 * Carl: Yeah, I decided not to park here.
 * Attendant: What do you mean? You decided not to park here?
 * Carl: Yeah, I just came in. I decided not to park here.
 * Attendant: You, uh... I'm sorry, sir, but--
 * Carl: I decided not to... I'm, uh, not taking the trip as it turns out.
 * Attendant: I'm sorry, sir, we do have to charge you the four dollars.
 * Carl: I just pulled in here. I just fuckin' pulled in here!
 * Attendant: Well, see, there's a minimum charge of four dollars. Long-term parking charges by the day.
 * Carl: I guess you think, ya know, you're some kind of an authority figure. With that stupid fucking uniform.  Huh, buddy? King Clip-on Tie here. Big fucking man, huh? You know, these are the limits of your life, man. Ruler of your little fucking gate here. There's your four dollars, you pathetic piece of shit.

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 * Marge: So, do you remember getting a call last Wednesday night?
 * Shep: Nope.
 * Marge: Well, you do reside their at 1425 Fremont Terrace?
 * Shep: Yep.
 * Marge: Anyone else residing there?
 * Shep: No.
 * Marge: Well, Mr. Proudfoot, this call came in past three in the morning. It's just hard for me to believe you can't remember anyone calling. Now, I know you've had some problems, struggling with the narcotics, some other entanglements, currently on parole...
 * Shep: So?
 * Marge: Well, associating with criminals, if you're the one they talked to, that right there would be a violation of your parole. And would end with you back in Stillwater. Now, I saw some rough stuff on your priors, but nothing in the nature of a homicide. I know you don't want to be an accessory to something like that. So you think you might remember who those folks were who called ya?

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 * [Jerry is doodling at his desk]
 * Marge: Mr. Lundegaard?
 * Jerry: Huh? Yah?
 * Marge: Could take just a minute of your time here?
 * Jerry: What- What is it all about?
 * Marge: Hmm? Do you mind if I sit down? I'm carrying quite a load here. You're the owner here, Mr. Lundegaard?
 * Jerry: Naw, I... Executive Sales Manager.
 * Marge: Well, you can help me. My name's Marge Gunderson--
 * Jerry: My father-in-law, he's the owner.
 * Marge Gunderson: Uh-huh! Well, I'm a police officer from up Brainerd investigating some malfeasance and I was just wondering if you've had any new vehicles stolen off the lot in the past couple of weeks? Specifically a tan Cutlass Ciera? [Jerry just stares at her] Mr. Lundegaard?
 * Jerry: [smiles] Brainerd?
 * Marge: Yah. Yah. Home a Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.
 * Jerry: Babe the Blue Ox. [laughs]
 * Marge: Yah, ya know we've got the big statue there. So, you haven't had any vehicles go missing then?
 * Jerry: [smiles] Nope. No, ma'am.
 * Marge: Okey-dokey, thanks a bunch. I'll let you get back to your paperwork then.

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 * Mike: Marge!?
 * Marge: Mike!
 * Mike: Geez! Oh, you look great! [awkwardly hugs Marge]
 * Marge: Yah, easy there, you do too! I'm expecting, ya know.
 * Mike: I see that! That's great! Oh, what can I get ya?
 * Marge: Just a Diet Coke, please. [they take a seat at the booth] This is a nice place.
 * Mike: Yah, ya know it's the Radisson, so it's pretty good.
 * Marge: So, you're livin' in Edina, now?
 * Mike: Oh, yah, couple years now. It's actually Eden Prairie, that school district. So Chief Gunderson, then! So ya went and married Norm Son-of-a-Gunderson!
 * Marge: Oh, yah, a long time ago.
 * Mike: Great. So, uh, what brings ya down. Are ya down here on that homicide if you're allowed, ya know, to discuss that?
 * Marge: Oh, yah, but there's not a heck of a lot to discuss. So, what about you, Mike? Are you married? You got kids?
 * Mike: Well, uh, I was married. I was married to- You mind if I sit over here? [slids out of his side of the booth and eases in next to Marge] I was married to Linda Cooksey.
 * Marge: No, I... Mike, why don't ch'ya sit over there, I'd prefer that.
 * Mike: Huh? Oh, okay. [slids back to his original seat across from Marge] I'm sorry.
 * Marge: No, just so I can see ya, ya know. Don't have to turn my neck.
 * Mike: Oh, sure, I understand, I didn't mean to-
 * Marge: No, no, that's fine.
 * Mike: Yah, sorry, so I was married to Linda Cooksey- ya remember Linda? She was a year behind us.
 * Marge: Yah, I think I remember Linda, yah. Oh yah! So, things didn't work out, huh?
 * Mike: And then I- and then I been workin' for Honeywell for a few years now.
 * Marge: Well, they're a good outfit.
 * Mike: Yah, if you're an engineer, yah, you could do a lot worse. Of course, it's not, uh, it's nothin' like your achievement.
 * Marge: It sounds like you're doin' really super.
 * Mike: Yah, well, I, uh... it's not that it didn't work out... Linda had leukemia. She passed away.
 * Marge: Oh, no.
 * Mike: It was a tough, uh ... it was a long. She fought real hard.
 * Marge: I'm sorry, Mike.
 * Mike: Oh, ya know, that's, uh - what can I say? Better times, huh?
 * Marge: Better times.
 * Mike: And, oh, then I saw you on the news and I remembered... I always liked you...
 * Marge: Well, I always liked you, Mike.
 * Mike: I always liked you so much!
 * Marge: [awkward pause] So, Mike, should we get together another time, ya think?
 * Mike: No! No, I'm sorry! It's just-  I shouldn't a done this...  I thought we'd have a really terrific time, and now I've...
 * Marge: It's okay, Mike.
 * Mike: You were such a super lady! And then I... I been so lonely... [cries]
 * Marge: It's okay.

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 * Female Escort: So, you from around here?
 * Carl: Just in town on business. Just in and out. A little of the old in-and-out.
 * Female Escort: What do ya do?
 * Carl: Have ya been to the Celebrity Room before? With other, uh, clients?
 * Female Escort: I don't think so. It's nice.
 * Carl: Yeah, well, it depends on the artist. You know, José Feliciano, ya got no complaints. Waiter! What is he deaf? So, how long you been with the escort service?
 * Female Escort: I don't know, a few months.
 * Carl: Find that work interesting, do ya?
 * Female Escort: What're ya talkin' about?

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 * [Carl has just been beaten up by Shep]
 * Jerry Lundegaard: [answers the phone] Yah?
 * Carl Showalter: All right, Jerry, I'm through fucking around! You got the fucking money?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, I got the money, but, uh -
 * Carl Showalter: Don't you fucking "but" me, Jerry! I want you with this money on the Dayton-Radisson parking ramp, top level, thirty minutes, and we'll wrap this up!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, okay, but, uh -
 * Carl Showalter: You're there in thirty minutes or I find you, Jerry, and I shoot you, and I shoot your fucking wife, and I shoot all your little fucking children, and I shoot 'em all in the back of their little fucking heads! Got it?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Okay, now you stay away from Scotty now.
 * Carl Showalter: Got it?!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Okay. Real good then.

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 * Carl: Who the fuck are you?! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!
 * Wade: I've got your damn money! Now where's my daughter?
 * Carl: I am through fuckin' around! Drop that fuckin' briefcase!
 * Wade: Where's my daughter!?
 * Carl: Fuck you man! Where the fuck's Jerry?! I gave simple fuckin' instructions!
 * Wade: Where's my damn daughter? No Jean, no money!
 * Carl: Drop that fucking money!
 * Wade: No Jean, no money!
 * Carl: Is this a fuckin' joke here? [pulls out his gun and shoots Wade]
 * Wade: [falls down] Ohhhhh jeeeeez...
 * Carl: Happy now, fuckhole? What the fuck's with you fucking people?! Ya fucking imbeciles!
 * [Wade shoots Carl in the cheek; Carl falls on his crotch, his gun firing wildly as he stumbles]
 * Carl: OW! Fuckin' shot me! [uses his left hand to staunch his bleeding cheek while he stands up, awkwardly aims his gun at Wade, and shoots him eight more times]

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 * [Carl approaches the parking lot exit after shooting Wade]
 * Attendant: May I have your ticket please? [He sees Carl's bloody face]
 * Carl Showalter: Open the fucking gate!

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 * [Officer Olson stops by Mr. Mohra's home]
 * Mr. Mohra: How ya doin'?
 * Officer Olson: Mr. Mohra?
 * Mr. Mohra: Yah.
 * Officer Olson: Officer Olson.
 * Mr. Mohra: Yah, right-o. Well, so, I'm tendin' bar down there at Ecklund & Swedlund's last Tuesday and this little guy's drinkin' and he says, 'So where can a guy find some action? I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake.' And I says, 'What kinda action?' And he says, 'Woman action, what do I look like?' And I says, 'Well, what do I look like? I don't arrange that kinda thing.' And he says, 'But I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake,' and I says, 'Yah, but this ain't that kinda place.'
 * Officer Olson: Uh-huh.
 * Mr. Mohra: He says, 'Oh, so I get it, so you think I'm some kinda jerk for askin',' only he don't use the word "jerk".
 * Officer Olson: I understand.
 * Mr. Mohra: Then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who thought he was a jerk is dead now. So, I don't say nothin'. He says, 'What do ya think about that?' And I says, 'Well, that don't sound like too good a deal for him, then.'
 * Officer Olson: [chuckles] You got that right.
 * Mr. Mohra: Yah. He says, 'Yah, that guy's dead and I don't mean of old age.' And then he says, 'Geez, I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake.'
 * Officer Olson: [points] White Bear Lake?
 * Mr. Mohra: Yah, well, at Ecklund & Swedlund's, that's closer to Moose Lake, so I made that assumption.
 * Officer Olson: Oh, sure.
 * Mr. Mohra: Anyway, he was drinkin' at the bar, so I don't think a whole great deal of it, but then Mrs. Mohra, she heard about the homicides down here and thought I should call it in, so I called it in. End of story.
 * Officer Olson: Well, what'd this guy look like, anyways?
 * Mr. Mohra: Oh, he's a little guy. Kinda funny-lookin'.
 * Officer Olson: Uh-huh. In what way?
 * Mr. Mohra: Oh, just in a general kinda way.
 * Officer Olson: Okay. Well, thanks a bunch, Mr. Mohra. You're right, it's probably nothin', but thanks for callin' her in.
 * Mr. Mohra: Sure. Looks like she's gonna turn cold tomorrow.
 * Officer Olson: [looks up to the sky] Oh yah. Got a front comin' in.
 * Mr. Mohra: Yah, you got that right.

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 * Marge: [on the phone] No, I'm leavin' this mornin', back up to Brainerd.
 * Det. Sibert: Well, I'm sorry I won't see ya.
 * Marge: But ya think he's all right? I saw him last night and he's -
 * Det. Sibert: What'd he say?
 * Marge: Well, it was nothin' specific he said, it just seemd like it all hit him really hard, his wife dyin' -
 * Det. Sibert: His wife?
 * Marge: Linda.
 * Det. Sibert: Who?
 * Marge: Linda Cooksey.
 * Det. Sibert: No! No. No, they weren't - he, uh, he was bothering Linda for about, oh, for a good year. Really pestering her, wouldn't leave her alone.
 * Marge: So, they didn't...
 * Det. Sibert: No. No, they never married. Mike's had psychiatric problems.
 * Marge: Oh. Oh, my.
 * Det. Sibert: Yah, he's been struggling. He's living with his parents now.
 * Marge: Oh, geez.
 * Det. Sibert: Yah, Linda's fine. You should call her.
 * Marge Gunderson: Geez. Well... geez, that's a surprise.

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 * Marge Gunderson: Mr. Lundegaard? Sorry to bother you again. Can I come in?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, no, I'm kinda - I'm kinda busy here.
 * Marge Gunderson: I understand. I'll keep it real short, then. I'm on my way out of town, but I was just - Do you mind if I sit down? I'm carrying a bit of a load here.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: No, I -
 * Marge Gunderson: Yah, it's this vehicle I asked you about yesterday. I was just wondering -
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, like I told ya, we haven't had any vehicles go missing.
 * Marge Gunderson: Okay! Are ya sure? Cause, I mean, how do you know? Because, see, the crime I'm investigating, the perpetrators were driving a car with dealer plates, and they called someone who works here. So it'd be quite a coincidence if they weren't - ya know - connected!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, I see.
 * Marge Gunderson: So how do you - have you done any kind of inventory recently?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: The car's not from our lot, ma'am.
 * Marge Gunderson: But do you know that for sure without -
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Well, I would know. I'm the Executive Sales Manager!
 * Marge Gunderson: Yah, but -
 * Jerry Lundegaard: We run a pretty tight ship here.
 * Marge Gunderson: I understand. Do you do a count, or what kind of a routine do you have here?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Ma'am, I answered your question!
 * [Pause]
 * Marge Gunderson: I'm sorry, sir?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Ma'am, I answered your question. I answered the darned... I'm cooperatin' here! And, I...
 * Marge Gunderson: Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me, I'm just doing my job here.
 * Jerry Lundegaard: I'm... I'm not arguing here! I'm cooperating. So there's no need to... we're doin' all we can here.
 * Marge Gunderson: Sir, could I talk to Mr. Gustafson?
 * [Jerry stares at her]
 * Marge Gunderson: Mr. Lundegaard?
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Well, heck! If you wanna - if you wanna play games here! I'm workin' with ya on this thing, but I... Okay! I'll do a damned lot count!
 * Marge Gunderson: Sir? Right now?
 * [Jerry puts on his coat and hat]
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, right now! You're darn tootin'! If it's so damned imporant to ya!
 * Marge Gunderson: Well, I'm sorry, sir!
 * Jerry Lundegaard: Ah, what the Christ!
 * [Jerry leaves, then is seen driving away]
 * Marge Gunderson: Oh for Pete's sake! He's fleeing the interview! He's fleeing the interview!

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 * [Gaear is watching a TV soap opera. Carl bursts in through the door, still bleeding from the bullet wound he sustained at the parking garage.]
 * Carl: [force-laughs] You should see the other guy. [He sees Jean slumped to the floor, dead] The fuck happened to her?
 * Grimsrud: Uh, she started shrieking, ya know.
 * Carl: Jeezus. Oh. Well, I got the money. All of it. All eighty grand. Forty for you, forty for me. That's it, then. Here are the keys to my truck. I'm takin' the Ciera.
 * Grimsrud: We split that.
 * Carl: How the fuck do ya split a fuckin' car, ya dummy?! With a fuckin' chainsaw?!
 * Grimsrud: One of us pays the other for half.
 * Carl: Hold on. No fuckin' way! You fuckin' notice this?! [motions to his bullet wound] I got fuckin' shot!! I got fuckin' shot in the face!! I went and got the fuckin' money! I got shot fuckin' pickin' it up! I've been up for thirty-six fuckin' hours! I'm takin' that fuckin' car! That fucker's mine, ya fuckin' asshole. Ya know, I've been listenin' to your fuckin' bullshit all week. Are we square? [Gaear does not respond. Carl indicates his gun.] Are we square? [Gaear does not respond.] Yeah, ya fuckin' mute. And if you see your friend Shep Proudfoot, tell him I'm gonna nail his fuckin' ass! [storms out of the house]

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 * Lou: [voice from cop scanner] His wife. This guy says she was kidnapped last Wednesday.
 * Marge Gunderson: The day of our homicides.
 * Lou: Yah.
 * Marge Gunderson: And this guy is who?
 * Lou: Lundegaard's father-in-law's accountant.
 * Marge: Gustafson's accountant.
 * Lou: Yah.
 * Marge Gunderson: But we still haven't found Gustafson.
 * Lou: [crackle] ...looking...
 * Marge Gunderson: Sorry, didn't copy that Lou.
 * Lou: Still missing. We're looking.
 * Marge Gunderson: Copy. And Lundegaard too.
 * Lou: Yah. Where are ya, Margie?
 * Marge Gunderson: Oh, I'm almost back. I'm driving around Moose Lake.
 * Lou: Oh. Gary's loudmouth.
 * Marge Gunderson: Yah, the loudmouth. So the whole state has it, huh. Lundegaard and Gustafson?
 * Lou: Yah, it's over the wire, it's everywhere, they'll find 'em.
 * Marge Gunderson: Copy.
 * Lou: We've got a -
 * Marge Gunderson: There's the car! There's the car!
 * Lou: Whose car?
 * Marge Gunderson: My car! My car! Tan Ciera! Tan Ciera!

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 * [Marge climbs into bed with Norm]
 * Norm: They announced it.
 * Marge: They announced it?
 * Norm: Yah.
 * Marge: So?
 * Norm:Three-cent stamp.
 * Marge: Your mallard?
 * Norm: Yah.
 * Marge: Why that's terrific!
 * Norm: It's just the three-cent.
 * Marge: It's terrific.
 * Norm: Hautman's blue-winged teal got the twenty-nine cent. People don't much use the three-cent.
 * Marge: Oh, for Pete's sake, of course they do! Whenever they raise the postage, people need the little stamps.
 * Norm: Yah?
 * Marge: When they're stuck with a bunch of the old ones.
 * Norm: Yah, I guess.
 * Marge: That's terrific. I'm so proud of ya, Norm. Heck, Norm, you know we're doin' pretty good.
 * Norm: I love you, Margie.
 * Marge: I love you, Norm.
 * Norm: Two more months.
 * Marge: Two more months.

Taglines

 * Small town. Big crime. Dead cold.
 * A homespun murder story.
 * A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere.
 * An ordinary place, an extraordinary thriller.

Cast

 * Frances McDormand - Marge Gunderson
 * William H. Macy - Jerry Lundegaard
 * Steve Buscemi - Carl Showalter
 * Peter Stormare - Gaear Grimsrud
 * Kristin Rudrüd - Jean Lundegaard
 * Harve Presnell - Wade Gustafson
 * John Carroll Lynch - Norm Gunderson
 * Bruce Bohne - Lou
 * Cliff Rakerd - Officer Olson
 * Steve Park - Mike Yanagita
 * Bain Boehlke - Mr. Mohra

title: Fargo (film)


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Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer is the prayer book of the Church of England and also the name for similar books used in other churches in the Anglican Communion. It contains the order to be followed in church services.

General

 * It hath been the wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first compiling of her Publick Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it.

 * There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

 * Give peace in our time, O Lord.
 * Mattins and Evensong, Versicles

 * Grant that the old Adam in the Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him.
 * Public Baptism of Infants, Blessing on the Child

 * Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord,
 * Collect for the 25th Sunday after Trinity

 * Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.
 * Evensong, Second Collect, for Aid against Perils, p. 31

 * Dost thou, therefore, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the sinful desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them?
 * Holy Baptism, To the Godfathers and Godmothers, p. 276

 * In the midst of life we are in death.
 * Canticle from the Order for Burial of the Dead, p. 332

 * Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life.
 * Prayer of Commital from the Order for Burial of the Dead, p. 332

 * Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
 * Collect for the 2nd Sunday in Advent

 * We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep.
 * A General Confession, p. 6

 * We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
 * A General Confession, p. 6

 * Have mercy upon us, miserable offenders.
 * A General Confession, p. 6

 * Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
 * Gloria Patri, p. 9

 * I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary: Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead: He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty: From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost: The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints: The Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body: And the Life everlasting.
 * Apostles' Creed, p. 15

 * Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God; Begotten, not made; Being of one substance with the Father; By whom all things were made;Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man.
 * Nicene Creed, p. 16

 * O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies.
 * A Collect for Peace, p. 17

 * O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations.
 * A Prayer for All Conditions of Men, p. 18

 * We commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways inflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
 * A Prayer for All Conditions of Men, p. 19

 * We, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
 * A General Thanksgiving, p. 19

 * Almighty God, who...dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servents, as may be most expedient for them.
 * A Prayer of St. Chrysostom, p. 20

 * Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression.
 * "For Social Justice"

Easter

 * He is risen. The Lord is risen indeed.
 * Morning Prayer, p. 5

The Litany

 * From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness, Good Lord, deliver us. p.54

 * From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil. p.54

 * From battle and murder, and from sudden death. p.54

 * Give to all nations unity, peace, and concord. p.56

 * The kindly fruits of the earth. p.57

Holy Communion

 * Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name.
 * The Collect for Purity, p. 67

 * Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life.
 * To those who come to receive the Holy Communion, p. 75

 * We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable.
 * General Confession, p. 75

 * Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee.
 * Proper Preface, p. 77

 * And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee.
 * The Invocation, p. 81

 * The Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
 * Blessing, p. 84

Solemnization of Matrimony

 * Is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in fear of God.

 * If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

 * Wilt thou...forsaking all others, keep thee only unto (him/her), so long as ye both shall live?

 * To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.

 * With all my worldly goods I thee endow.

 * With this Ring I thee wed.

 * Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.

Quotes about the Book of Common Prayer

 * The poor Roman Catholics have had to start from scratch, and, as any of them with a feeling for language will admit, they have made a cacophonous horror of the Mass. We had the extraordinary good fortune in that our Book of Common Prayer was composed at exactly the right historical moment. The English language had already become more or less what it is today, so that the Prayer Book is no more difficult to follow than Shakespeare, but the ecclesiastics of the sixteenth century still possessed a feeling for the ritual and ceremonious which today we have almost entirely lost. Why should we spit on our luck?
 * W. H. Auden, 'Liturgy, Reform of', A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970), p. 226

 * [I believe the] whole booke to be the best liturgy in the world, especially the communion service, it beeinge allmost impossible that any office penn'd by men (not divinely inspired) should breath more piety, or containe more truth and decency.
 * Thomas Barlow, quoted in R. A. Beddard, 'Restoration Oxford and the Remaking of the Protestant Establishment', in Nicholas Tyacke (ed.), The History of the University of Oxford, Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford (1997), pp. 803–862

 * All I can say is that with age I find myself enjoying more and more the words and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer. Apart from their meaning, they sound right and they are not talking down to us by being matey, and where they're a bit vague and archaic, that makes them grand and historic. The words give me time to meditate and pray; they are so familiar, they are like my birthplace, and I don't want them pulled down. We are all of us preservationists who have had the luck to come out of the womb and with all our faculties.
 * John Betjeman, quoted in Brian Morris (ed.), Ritual Murder: Essays on Liturgical Reform (1980), p. 31

 * The Christian God of both church and chapel is approached by worship which is low-toned, pragmatic and unemotional. Where the Anglicans are concerned, the national attitude towards religion, seemly, decorous, polite, restrained, sensible, still dominates both the personal and the intellectual. Suffolk farm-workers use the incomparable English of the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible with naturalness and ease. Modern translations and the 1967 new Communion Service do not possess for them the virtue of the immense Elizabethan and Stuart incantations. Simplification is bafflement.
 * Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969), p. 58

 * Early in June, 1940, I went to St. Deniol's Library to meet Mr. Vidler, and at the very first Matins at the little chapel I knew that I had come home. I had not attended an Anglican service before. I was fifty years old. I was not a raw youth to be impressed. I came with a lifetime of suffering, and found that "I was in the spirit", deep called to deep. Late that first night I sat up reading, for the first time in my life, The Book of Common Prayer. "How is it", I asked myself, "that I have never read this before?" I found the Prayer Book to be more exciting at that first reading than any novel. I experienced a sense of ecstasy, I knew that I had found my spiritual place of abiding, that my buffered, storm-tossed barque had reached its haven.
 * David Richard Davies, In Search of Myself (1961), pp. 205-206

 * The Book of Common-Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments formerly established and used here in England is absolutely the best Form and freest from all just exceptions in all essentiall points and practices of Religion, that ever yet saw light in the Christian world.
 * Lionel Gatford, A Petition for the Vindication of the Publique use of the Book of Common Prayer (1654), quoted in Bryan D. Spinks, Sacraments, Ceremonies and the Stuart Divines: Sacramental Theology and Liturgy in England and Scotland 1603–1662 (2017)

 * [T]he essential principles of Anglicanism stand out to view most conspicuously in the Book of Common Prayer... the Prayer-book, representing the purged and ordered current of traditional religion, exhibits the permanent effects of Reformation, and forms the true and abiding standard of Anglican orthodoxy. It embodies the Anglican version of the Catholic system.
 * Hensley Henson, 'The Church of England', in Hensley Henson (ed.), Church Problems: A View of Modern Anglicanism (1900), pp. 4-5

 * One of my earliest loves was the Book of Common Prayer. I was seduced by it, by its beautiful words and the sense of history.
 * P. D. James, interview with Victoria McKee, quoted in Victoria McKee, 'P.D. James', The Times Magazine (22 May 1993), p. 43

 * I know of no good prayers but those in the Book of Common Prayer.
 * Samuel Johnson, remarks to James Boswell (11 June 1784), quoted in James Boswell, Life of Johnson [1791] (2008), p. 1292

 * There is no such sharp break between the Book of Common Prayer (1549) and earlier liturgical prose as there is between Tyndale and the medieval translators of scripture. It is an anonymous and corporate work in which Cranmer bore the chief part, and it is almost wholly traditional in matter though some of the excellences of its style are new... Sometimes, but very sparingly, the compilers borrowed from the recent liturgical experiments of the continental Reformers. Some prayers they translated from the Greek, and some they added of their own, but these were closely modelled on scripture. They wished their book to be praised not for original genius but for catholicity and antiquity, and it is in fact the ripe fruit of centuries of worship.
 * C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (1954), p. 215

 * [I]n general the style of that volume [Book of Common Prayer] is such as cannot be improved. The English Liturgy indeed gains by being compared even with those fine ancient Liturgies from which it is to a great extent taken. The essential qualities of devotional eloquence, conciseness, majestic simplicity, pathetic earnestness of supplication, sobered by a profound reverence, are common between the translations and the originals. But in the subordinate graces of diction the originals must be allowed to be far inferior to the translations. And the reason is obvious. The technical phraseology of Christianity did not become a part of the Latin language till that language had passed the age of maturity and was sinking into barbarism. But the technical phraseology of Christianity was found in the Anglosaxon and in the Norman French, long before the union of those two dialects had produced a third dialect superior to either. The Latin of the Roman Catholic services, therefore, is Latin in the last stage of decay. The English of our services is English in all the vigour and suppleness of early youth. To the great Latin writers, to Terence and Lucretius, to Cicero and Caesar, to Tacitus and Quinctilian, the noblest compositions of Ambrose and Gregory would have seemed to be, not merely bad writing, but senseless gibberish. The diction of our Book of Common Prayer, on the other hand, has directly or indirectly contributed to form the diction of almost every great English writer, and has extorted the admiration of the most accomplished infidels and of the most accomplished nonconformists, of such men as David Hume and Robert Hall.
 * Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume IV, ed. C. H. Firth (1914), pp. 1740-1742

 * One of the unique features of the English 'Reformation' – i.e., of the history of the C of E – is the fact that it coincides with a climax in the history of English prose. Even the role of Luther's German in his reformation movement and in the subsequent cultural history of Germany provides no adequate analogy or comparison. The King James Bible, the BCP and what we today associate with the name of Cranmer are lasting monuments to this accidental (or providential?) conjunction. The degradation of language and liturgy seem to go hand in hand. It is no longer a matter of throwing out the baby with the bathwater but simply of throwing away a casket of jewels.
 * David Martin, 'A plea for our Common Prayer', in Brian Morris (ed.), Ritual Murder: Essays on Liturgical Reform (1980), p. 17

 * What the great hymnbook of 1780 is to the Methodists and the Psalter to the Presbyterians, the Book of Common Prayer is to the English Church: "unique, unapproachable, elemental in its perfection". With the Authorised Version it is our living link with ourselves and with the early modern phase of our language in its first simple and supple splendour. Herbert Howells, one of the finest of our church composers in the older generation, puts the threat quite simply: "It is as if someone has gone around and put black marks on parish church after parish church, and one cathedral after another."
 * David Martin, 'A plea for our Common Prayer', in Brian Morris (ed.), Ritual Murder: Essays on Liturgical Reform (1980), pp. 21-22

 * Everything about my education came to focus in my attempt to save the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible. These texts, with hymnody, were what I most obviously shared with my father, and now the generations were being separated from each other just where they might expect continuity. To maintain something of that continuity I found myself in correspondence with the intelligence and imagination of England. The Prayer Book, the KJV and classic hymnody for me brought together poetry, music, poetry set to music, the poetics of place, the Church in a place, and articulate speech.
 * David Martin, The Education of David Martin: The Making of An Unlikely Sociologist (2013), p. 161

 * [A]fter eighty years of maturation, a hybrid church, thoroughly if murkily reformed in its doctrines, unreformed in its government, a mish-mash in its liturgy, had achieved not only an intellectual self-confidence but a rhythm of worship, piety, practice, that had earthed itself into the Englishman's consciousness and had sunk deep roots in popular culture.
 * John Morrill, 'The Church in England, 1642–9', in John Morrill (ed.), Reactions to the English Civil War 1642–1649 (1982), p. 113

 * [For the poor the Book of Common Prayer] was their daily spiritual food, that they feed upon; and in regard of the customs of it, they had gotten it by heart most of it, and found great comfort by it.
 * Mary Pope, A Treatise of Magistracy (1647), quoted in Bryan D. Spinks, Sacraments, Ceremonies and the Stuart Divines: Sacramental Theology and Liturgy in England and Scotland 1603–1662 (2017)

 * By one of those happy combinations of circumstance in English history which half persuade us that our nation is specially favoured by Providence, the Book of Common Prayer was preserved intact through more than four centuries while the passage of time subtly imparted to it the supercharge of archaism and familiarity which it could not possess at the outset but which make it a uniquely English vehicle of religious and ritual expression.
 * Enoch Powell, 'The Language of the Prayer Book', address to The National Conference of The Prayer Book Society in Trinity Hall, Cambridge (10 September 1983), published in The Salisbury Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 1984), quoted in Roger Scruton (ed.), Conservative Thoughts (1988), p. 75

 * Until the synodical revolution of the Worship and Doctrine Measure 1974, the language of the Book of Common Prayer was distinguished by being uniquely authoritative, established and fixed by the Crown in Parliament, the supreme source of authority in this realm... The Tractarians were doubly right when they acclaimed the Book of Common Prayer as the proof of the catholicism of the Anglican Church: right because the words and formulae, being themselves impregnable, were susceptible of an interpretation which bridged the gulf of the Reformation; and right because the essential mark of catholicism, uniformity imposed by universal authority, was placed upon it by the untrammelled imperium of the English nation state. Without the authoritative fixity of its liturgy, the unique comprehensiveness and broadmindedness of the Church of England would not have been possible.
 * Enoch Powell, 'The Language of the Prayer Book', address to The National Conference of The Prayer Book Society in Trinity Hall, Cambridge (10 September 1983), published in The Salisbury Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 1984), quoted in Roger Scruton (ed.), Conservative Thoughts (1988), pp. 78-78

 * As if you would know how the Church of England serves God, go to the Common-prayer book, consult not this, or that man.
 * John Selden, The Table Talk of John Selden, ed. Samuel Harvey Reynolds (1892), p. 105

 * Seek not to change even what you deem faulty, for hardly any change could be effected in the Prayer Book or Formularies which would not result in greater evils than those which you wish to remedy. You cannot realize in imagination the extent of the evil results to England of any material alteration in the Book of Common Prayer: no other human work is so free from faults as it is.
 * Charles Simeon, quoted in Arthur William Brown, Recollections of the Conversation Parties of the Rev. Charles Simeon (1863), p. 62

 * Certainly, more than any other book except the Authorised Version of the Bible, his [Thomas Cranmer's] Prayer Book has moulded the English character and has educated the English mind.
 * Charles Smyth, The Church and the Nation: Six Studies in the Anglican Tradition (1962), p. 55

 * He [ George Herbert ] said to Mr. Duncon, "Sir, I see by your habit that you are a priest, and I desire you to pray with me;" which being granted, Mr. Duncon asked him "What prayers?" to which Mr. Herbert's answer was, "O, Sir, the prayers of my mother the Church of England; no other prayers are equal to them!"
 * Izaak Walton, 'The Life of Mr. George Herbert', The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson (1796), p. 378

 * I believe there is no liturgy in the World, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational Piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.
 * John Wesley, The Sunday Service of the Methodists; With Other Occasional Services (1788), p. 3

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