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Boredom

Boredom is a reactive state of emotion that interprets the condition of one's environment as wearingly dull due to repetitive, non-existent or tedious stimuli. Boredom stems from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, or do (physically or intellectually) when not in the mood of "doing anything."

Quotes

 * If you grow bored so easily, perhaps it’s from listening to yourself.
 * Robin Wayne Bailey, Child of Orcus, in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.) Sword and Sorceress (1984), p. 249

 * Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
 * Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories (1987), translated by Chris Turner (London: Verso, 1990), p. 100

 * If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
 * Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller" (1936), in Illuminations (1968), p. 91

 * Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
 * Emile Cioran, Histoire et utopie ("History and Utopia") (1960)

 * A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
 * Arthur C. Clark, Childhood's End, Ch. 10 (1953)

 * Boredom helps one to make decisions.
 * Colette, Gigi, Aunt Alicia (1945)

 * Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
 * Guy Debord, The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International, The Bad Old Days Will End (Nov. 1963)

 * Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
 * Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943), p. 134

 * Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (1945)

 * But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.
 * Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Pt. I, Ch. VII (1857)

 * Man is the only animal that can be bored.
 * Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955)

 * I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.
 * Erich Fromm, The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), p. 150

 * Tedium is the worst pain.
 * John Gardner, Grendel (1971)

 * Boredom is a powerful incentive to come up with bad ideas, especially for intellectuals.
 * Jonah Goldberg, "Free-Market Boring…Losing Consciousness" (24 January 2001), National Review

 * Boredom is boredom. There is nothing to do, deal with it.
 * Joey Green, Philosophy on the Go (2007), p. 222

 * The gods were bored, and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, and so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase of population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; then Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the peoples were bored en masse.
 * Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, quoted by Alan R. Pratt in The Dark Side: Thoughts on the Futility of Life from the Ancient Greeks to the Present (1994), p 140 ISBN 978-0806514819

 * I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for that I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.
 * Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, quoted by Alan R. Pratt in The Dark Side: Thoughts on the Futility of Life from the Ancient Greeks to the Present (1994), p 140 ISBN 978-0806514819

 * She regarded boredom as a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.
 * Nancy Kress, Probability Moon (2000), ISBN 0-765-34341-X, Chapter 4 (p. 39)

 * “Boredom,” he says, “is the province of the unimaginative soul.”
 * Lisa Mason, The Golden Nineties (1995), ISBN 0-553-57307-1 p. 83

 * Many felt there was something not quite right about a man who professed himself so profoundly bored with the subject of sport.
 * Neil McKenna, of Oscar Wilde, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, 2005, p. 4

 * In principio, dunque, era la noia, volgarmente chiamata caos. Iddio, annoiandosi della noia, creò la terra, il cielo, l'acqua, gli animali, le piante, Adamo ed Èva; i quali ultimi, annoiandosi a loro volta in paradiso, mangiarono il frutto proibito. Iddio si annoiò di loro e li cacciò dall'Eden.
 * Translation: In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden.
 * Alberto Moravia, La noia (Milano: Bompiani, 1960), pp. 10-11; Angus Davidson (trans.), Boredom (New York: New York Review of Books, 1999), p. 8

 * Against boredom even the gods contend in vain.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 48 (1888)

 * Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
 * Translation: We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
 * François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 304 (1665–1678)

 * Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
 * Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, Ch. 4: Boredom and Excitement (1930)

 * The result of this mental dullness is that inner vacuity and emptiness that is stamped on innumerable faces and also betrays itself in a constant and lively attention to all events in the external world, even the most trivial. This vacuity is the real source of boredom and always craves for external excitement in order to set the mind and spirits in motion through something. Therefore in the choice thereof it is not fastidious, as is testified by the miserable and wretched pastimes to which people have recourse. ... The principal result of this inner vacuity is the craze for society, diversion, amusement, and luxury of every kind which lead many to extravagance and so to misery. Nothing protects us so surely from this wrong turning as inner wealth, the wealth of the mind, for the more eminent it becomes, the less room does it leave for boredom. The inexhaustible activity of ideas, their constantly renewed play with the manifold phenomena of the inner and outer worlds, the power and urge always to make different combinations of them, all these put the eminent mind, apart from moments of relaxation, quite beyond the reach of boredom.
 * Arthur Schopenhauer, “Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life,” Parerga und Paralipomena, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, pp. 329-330

 * Human beings are addicted to meaning. We all have a great problem: Our lives must have some sort of content. We cannot bear to live our lives without some sort of content that we can see as constituting a meaning. Meaninglessness is boring. And boredom can be described metaphorically as a meaning withdrawal. Boredom can be understood as a discomfort which communicates that the need for meaning is not being satisfied.
 * Lars Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom (2005), p. 30 ISBN 978-1861892171

 * It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up from boredom.
 * Wallace Stevens, "The Irrational Element in Poetry" (December 1936), repr. in Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose, ed. Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson (New York: Library of America, 1997), p. 788

 * Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
 * Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, "Emotions", p. 36 (1973)

 * The way to be bored is to know where you are going and the way to get there.
 * Hippolyte Taine

 * Soon he [Vronsky] felt rising in his soul a desire for desires — boredom.
 * Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877), Part 5, Ch. 8. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

 * The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
 * Helen Westley as quoted in "The Confessions of Helen Westley" by Djuna Barnes in New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine (23 September 1917)

 * What excited me was the recognition that this was simply another version of the problem that had obsessed me all of my life -- the problem of those moments when life seems entirely delightful, when we experience a sensation of what G.K. Chesterton called "absurd good news." Life normally strikes most of us as hard, dull and unsatisfying; but in these moments, consciousness seems to glow and expand, and all the contradictions seem to be resolved. Which of the two visions is true? My own reflections had led me to conclude that the vision of "absurd good news" is somehow broader and more comprehensive than the feeling that life is dull, boring and meaningless. Boredom is basically a feeling of narrowness, and surely a narrow vision is bound to be less true than a broad one?
 * Colin Wilson in The Misfits, p. 16 (1988)

 * Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of its own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.
 * Colin Wilson in The Angry Years p. 214 (2007)

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Machine

A machine is a tool consisting of one or more parts that is constructed to achieve a particular goal. Machines are powered devices, usually mechanically, chemically, thermally or electrically powered, and are frequently motorized. Historically, a device required moving parts to classify as a machine; however, the advent of electronics technology has led to the development of devices without moving parts that are considered machines.

 * CONTENT : A - F, G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links

Quotes

 * Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author.

A - F

 * Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
 * Jean Arp; As cited in: Carol Dingle (2000) Memorable Quotations: French Writers of the Past. p. 8.

 * The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
 * Warren G. Bennis; As cited in: Mark Fisher (1991) The millionaire's book of quotations. p. 151.

 * It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
 * Pearl S. Buck; As cited in: Rosalie Maggio (1996) The New Beacon book of quotations by women. p. 424.

 * Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practises the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are all discredited, and thrown aside. On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Signs of the Times (1829)

 * When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
 * Alexander Chase (1966) Perspectives. Cited in: Anna Hart (1988) Expert systems: an introduction for managers. p. 111.

 * A blacksmith, Thomas Newcomen, in collaboration with a plumber, John Calley, produced the first commercially successful machine for "raising water by fire." Newcomen could not have based his design on prevailing scientific theory, White argued, because his engine relied on the dissolution of air in steam, and "scientists in his day were not aware that air dissolves in water." Evidently "the mastery of steam power" was a product of empirical science and was "not influenced by Galilean science."
 * Clifford D. Conner, A People's History of Science (2005) quoting from Lynn White, Jr., "Pumps and Pendula: Galileo and Technology," in Galileo Reappraised ed. Carlo Luigi Golino (1966).

 * Leaving aside genetic surgery applied humans, I foresee that the coming century will place in our hands two other forms of biological technology which are less dangerous but still revolutionary enough to transform the conditions of our existence. I count these new technologies as powerful allies in the attack on Bernal's three enemies. I give them the names “biological engineering” and “self-reproducing machinery.” Biological engineering means the artificial synthesis of living organisms designed to fulfil human purposes. Self-reproducing machinery means the imitation of the function and reproduction of a living organism with non-living materials, a computer-program imitating the function of DNA and a miniature factory imitating the functions of protein molecules. After we have attained a complete understanding of the principles of organization and development of a simple multicellular organism, both of these avenues of technological exploitation should be open to us.
 * Freeman Dyson, from 3rd J.D. Bernal Lecture, Birkbeck College London (16 May 1972), The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1972), 6. Collected in The Scientist as Rebel (2006), 292. (The World, the Flesh & the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul is the title of a book by J. D Bernal, a scientist who pioneered X-ray crystallography.)

 * Although it is not, abstractedly speaking, of importance to know who first made a most valuable experiment, or to what individual the community is indebted for the invention of the most useful machine, yet the sense of mankind has in this, as in several other things, been in direct opposition to frigid reasoning; and we are pleased with a recollection of benefits, and with rendering honour to the memory of those who bestowed them. Were public benefactors to be allowed to pass away like hewers of wood and drawers of water, without commemoration, genius and enterprise would be deprived of their most coveted distinction, and after-times would lose incentives to that emulation which urges us to cherish and practise what has been worthy of commendation or imitation in our forefathers; and to make their works, which may have served for a light and been useful to the age in which they lived, a guide and a spur to ourselves
 * Henry Englefield Cited in: . Brief Biographies of Inventors of Machines for the Manufacture of Textile ... (1863) p. xiv.

 * It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
 * T.S. Eliot, about radio; Cited in: Robert Andrews (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations. p. 262.

 * The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
 * Havelock Ellis (1948) Morals, manners, and men. p. 41.

 * Another scientific development that we find difficult to absorb into our traditional value system is the new science of cybernetics: machines that may soon equal or surpass man in original thinking and problem-solving. [...] In the hands of the present establishment there is no doubt that the machine could be used – is being used – to intensify the apparatus of repression and to increase established power. But again, as in the issue of population control, misuse of science has often obscured the value of science itself. In this case, though perhaps the response may not be quite so hysterical and evasive, we still often have the same unimaginative concentration on the evils of the machine itself, rather than a recognition of its revolutionary significance.
 * Shulamith Firestone,

 * Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
 * Erich Fromm; as cited in: Noah benShea (2001) Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers. p. 23.

G - L

 * We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
 * John Kenneth Galbraith (2007) The new industrial state. p. 9.

 * Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
 * Ellen Goodman (1978) "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987.

 * If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
 * Stephen Hawking, quoted in "Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots" Huffington Post, October 8, 2015.

 * One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
 * Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923.

 * We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization.
 * Robert Strausz-Hupe, Philadelphia Inquirer (1978).

 * Lucca: Machines aren't capable of evil. Humans make them that way.
 * Masato Kato, Takashi Tokita, Yoshinori Kitase, Yuji Horii Chrono Trigger

 * All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
 * Mark Kennedy as cited in: Stuart Kantor (2004) Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises. p. 39.

 * I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)

 * You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
 * Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Politics (New York: Michael Kennerley, 1913), p. 30

M - R

 * It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
 * John Stuart Mill (1848); As cited in: Colin Renfrew (1972) The Emergence of Civilisation. p. 499.

 * The preparation for the machine that took place between the tenth and the eighteenth century gave it a broad foundation and assured its speedy and universal conquest throughout Western Civilization. But in back of this lay the long development of technics itself: the original exploration of the raw environment, the utilization of objects shaped by nature--shells and stones and animal gut- for tools and utensils: the development of fundamental industrial processes, digging, chipping, hammering, scraping, spinning, drying: the deliberate shaping of specific tools as necessities pressed and as skill increased.
 * Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934) Ch. II "Agents of Mechanization," p. 60

 * The machine itself ... is a human product, and its very abstractions make it more definitely human in one sense than those human arts which on occasion realistically counterfit nature.
 * Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934) Ch. 7 "Assimilation of the Machine." p.325

 * The machine is no longer the paragon of progress and the final expression of our desires: it is merely a series of instruments, which we will use in so far as they are serviceable to life at large, and which we will curtail where they infringe upon it or exist purely to support the adventitious structure of capitalism.
 * Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934) Ch. 8 "Orientation," p.365

 * Looking back over the last thousand years, one can divide the development of the machine and the machine civilization into three successive but over-lapping and interpenetrating phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic, neotechnic … Speaking in terms of power and characteristic materials, the eotechnic phase is a water-and-wood complex: the paleotechnic phase is a coal-and-wood complex… The dawn-age of our modern technics stretches roughly from the year 1000 to 1750. It did not, of course, come suddenly to an end in the middle of the eighteenth century. A new movement appeared in industrial society which had been gathering headway almost unnoticed from the fifteenth century on: after 1750 industry passed into a new phase, with a different source of power, different materials, different objectives.
 * Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilisation (1934), 109.

 * Cooper: You don't believe we went to the Moon?
 * Ms. Hanley: I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines...
 * Cooper: Useless machines?
 * Ms. Hanley: ..and if we don't want to repeat of the excess and wastefulness of the 20th Century then we need to teach our kids about this planet, not tales of leaving it.
 * Cooper: You know, one of those useless machines they used to make was called an MRI, and if we had one of those left the doctors would have been able to find the cyst in my wife's brain, before she died instead of afterwards, and then she would've been the one sitting here, listening to this instead of me. Which would've been a good thing because she was always the ... calmer one.
 * Interstellar, written by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, as interpreted by Matthew McConaughey and Collette Wolfe

S - Z

 * The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
 * Saint-Exupéry (1939) Wind, Sand, and Stars.

 * I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
 * E.F. Schumacher (1985) Good Work. p. 25.

 * The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
 * B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969.

 * A machine, receiving at distant times and from many hands new combinations and improvements, and becoming at last of signal benefit to mankind, may be compared to a rivulet, swelled in its course by tributary streams until it rolls along a majestic river, enriching in its progress provinces and kingdoms. In retracing the current, too, from where it mingles with the ocean, the pretensions of even ample subsidiary streams are merged in our admiration of the master-flood. But, as we continue to ascend, those waters which, nearer the sea, would have been disregarded as unimportant, begin to rival in magnitude, and divide our attention with, the parent stream; until, at length, on our approaching the fountains of the river, it appears trickling from the rock, or oozing from among the flowers of the valley. So, also, in developing the rise of a machine, a coarse instrument or a toy may be recognized as the germ of that production of mechanical genius whose power and usefulness have stimulated our curiosity to mark its changes and to trace its origin. The same feelings of reverential gratitude which attached holiness to the spots whence mighty rivers sprung, also clothed with divinity, and raised altars in honor of the saw, the plough, the potter's wheel, and the loom.
 * Robert Stuart (1829) Historical and descriptive anecdotes of steam-engines, and of their inventors and improvers, Volume 1. Wightman and Cramp. p. 3-4.: As cited in Robert Henry Thurston "The Growth of the Steam-Engine I" in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, November 1877. p. 15.

 * It’s possible to imagine a machine that could scoop up material – rocks from the Moon or rocks from asteroids – process them inside and produce just about any product: washing machines or teacups or automobiles or starships. Once such a machine exists it could gather sunlight and materials that it’s sitting on, and produce on call whatever product anybody wants to name, as long as somebody knows how to make it and those instructions can be given to the machine.
 * Theodore Taylor (1978) as quoted in Nigel Calder, Spaceships of the Mind, Viking Press, New York, 1978; quoted in Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2004

 * Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
 * Nikola Tesla "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency" (February 1892)

 * The particular ‘desire’ of the Eregion Elves—an ‘allegory’ if you like of a love of machinery, and technical devices—is also symbolised by their special friendship with the Dwarves of Moria.
 * John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien, from Letter draft to Peter Hastings (manager of a Catholic bookshop in Oxford, who wrote about his enthusiasm for Lord of the Rings) (Sep 1954). In Humphrey Carpenter (ed.) assisted by Christopher Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1995, 2014), 190, Letter No. 153

 * Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
 * Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty (1955), translated by A. Willis and J. Petrie (Routledge: 1958), p. 105

 * ... the construction of machines, the functioning of which he can foresee, constitutes the most spectacular accomplishment of the physicist. In these machines, the physicist creates a situation in which all the relevant coordinates are known so that the behavior of the machine can be predicted. Radars and nuclear reactors are examples of such machines.
 * Eugene Wigner:

 * Never before have people been so infantilized, made so dependent on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.
 * John Zerzan, Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994)

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Peter Pan (1953 film)

Peter Pan is an animated film based on J. M. Barrie's play of the same name, first released in February 1953 by Walt Disney Studios. It follows the Darling children as they encounter Peter Pan, the main character of one of their favorite bedtime stories, and the adventures they have when he takes them to his magical home: Neverland.
 * Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. Written by Milt Banta, J.M. Barrie (play), William Cottrell, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright

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Peter Pan

 * Second star to the right and straight on till morning.
 * Come on, everybody, here we go! Off to Never Land!

Captain Hook

 * [to Tinker Bell] Captain Hook gives his word not to lay a finger, or a hook, on Peter Pan.

The Narrator

 * All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. But this time, it happened in London. It happened on a quiet street in Bloomsbury. That corner house over there is the home of the Darling family. And Peter Pan chose this particular house, because there were people here who believed in him. There was Mrs. Darling. Mrs. Darling believed that Peter Pan was the spirit of youth. But Mr. Darling... Well, Mr. Darling was a practical man. The boys, however, John and Michael, believed Peter Pan was a real person, and made him the hero of all their nursery games. Wendy, the eldest, not only believed. She was the supreme authority on Peter Pan and all his marvelous adventures. Nana, the nursemaid, being a dog, kept her opinions to herself, and viewed the whole affair with a certain tolerance.

Dialogue

 * Mary Darling: But, George, do you think the children will be safe without Nana?
 * George Darling: Safe? Of course they'll be safe. Why not?
 * Mary Darling: Well, Wendy said something about a shadow, and I...
 * George Darling: Shadow? Whose shadow?
 * Mary Darling: Peter Pan's.
 * George Darling: Oh, Peter Pan...Peter Pan?! You don't say! [high, mocking voice] Goodness gracious! Whatever shall we do?!
 * Mary Darling: But, George...
 * George Darling: [normal voice] Sound the alarm!
 * Mary Darling: Really, I...
 * George Darling: Call Scotland Yard!

 * Wendy Darling: I'm so glad you came back tonight. I might never have seen you.
 * Peter Pan: Why?
 * Wendy Darling: Because I have to grow up tomorrow.
 * Peter Pan: Grow up?!
 * Wendy Darling: Tonight's my last night in the nursery.
 * Peter Pan: But that means no more stories!
 * Wendy Darling: Mm-hmm.
 * Peter Pan: No! I won't have it! Come on!

 * Mr. Smee: Oh, dear, dear, dear, Captain Hook. Shootin’ a man in the middle of his cadenza? That ain't good form, you know.
 * Captain Hook: "Good form," Mr. Smee? Blast good form! [waves his hook in front of Mr. Smee] Did Pan show good form when he did this to me?!
 * Mr. Smee: Why, Captain, cutting your hand off was only a childish prank, you might say.
 * Captain Hook: Aye! But throwing it to that crocodile! That cursed beast liked the taste of me so well he's followed me ever since, licking his chops for the rest of me.

 * The Indian Chief: [comes forward] How!
 * The Lost Boys: (Cubby) Uh, how! (Slightly) How, chief!
 * The Indian Chief: For many moons red man fight paleface Lost Boys.
 * The Lost Boys: Ugh?
 * The Indian Chief: Sometime you win, sometime we win.
 * Cubby: Okay, Chief. Uh, you win this time. Now turn us loose.
 * John Darling: Turn us loose? You mean this is only a game?
 * Slightly: Sure. When we win, we turn them loose.
 * Twin #1: And when they win, they turn us loose.
 * Twin #2: They turn us loose.
 * The Indian Chief: This time no turnum loose.
 * The Lost Boys: Huh?
 * Slightly: [chuckling] The chief's a great spoofer.
 * The Indian Chief: Me no spoofum! Where you hide Princess Tiger Lily?!
 * Cubby: Uh, Tiger Lily?
 * Slightly: We ain't got your ol' princess!
 * John Darling: I've certainly never seen her.
 * The Lost Boys: (agreeing) (Cubby) Me neither. (the twins) Honestly don't.
 * The Indian Chief: Heap big lie. If Tiger Lily not back by sunset, burnum at stake!

 * Mr. Smee: Well, at last, Captain Hook's comin' to his senses.
 * Captain Hook: [surprised] Odd's fish!
 * Mr. Smee: [to Tiger Lily] I told him all along you Indians wouldn't betray Peter Pan.
 * Captain Hook: [kindly] And just what do you think you are doing, Mr. Smee?
 * [he stops the rowboat from moving by placing his foot on it]
 * Mr. Smee: Just what you told me, Captain: carrying out your orders.
 * Captain Hook: My orders?
 * Mr. Smee: Why, yes, Captain. Didn't you just say to go...
 * Hook: [shoves the boat back into Skull Rock] Put her back, you blithering idiot! [to himself] My orders. Of all the bumbling...

 * Peter Pan: [impersonates Hook] Mr. Smee! Just exactly what do you think you are doing?
 * Mr. Smee: Putting her back like you said, Captain.
 * Peter Pan: I said nothing of the sort!
 * Mr. Smee: [stammers] But captain...!
 * Peter Pan: [whilst the real Hook creeps up to him unbeknownst] For the last time, Mr. Smee, take the princess back to her people! UNDERSTAND!? [echoes]
 * Mr. Smee: Aye-aye, sir.
 * Peter Pan: Oh, and one more thing: When you return to the ship, tell the whole crew to help themselves to me best rum.

 * [Wendy Darling has walked the plank, and Peter Pan saves her, unbeknownst to Hook and his pirates]
 * Mr. Starkey: No splash, Captain.
 * Captain Hook: So, you want a splash, Mr. Starkey? I'll give you a splash! [throws Starkey overboard] Who's next?!
 * Peter Pan: You're next, Hook! This time you've gone too far!

 * Captain Hook: Fly! Fly! Fly! You coward!
 * Peter Pan: Coward?! Me?
 * Captain Hook: Ha-ha-ha! You wouldn't dare fight old Hook man-to-man. You'd fly away like a cowardly sparrow!
 * Peter Pan: Nobody calls Pan a coward and lives! I'll fight you man-to-man, with one hand behind my back.
 * Captain Hook: You mean you won't fly?
 * Wendy Darling: No, don't, Peter! It's a trick!
 * Peter Pan: I give my word, Hook.
 * Captain Hook: Good! Then let's have at it!

 * Captain Hook: You wouldn't do old Hook in now, would you, lad? I'll go away forever. [cries] I'll do anything you say!
 * Peter Pan: Well, all right. If ya... Say you're a codfish.
 * Captain Hook: [gulp] I'm a codfish.
 * Peter Pan: Louder!
 * Captain Hook: (wailing) I'M A CODFISH!
 * Wendy Darling and the boys: HOORAY! [all sing] Hook is a codfish!
 * A codfish.
 * A codfish.
 * Hook is a codfish!
 * A codfish.
 * A codfish.
 * [Tick-Tock the Crocodile is waiting below happily splashing his arms rhythmically in the water]
 * Peter Pan: All right, Hook. You're free to go and never return.

 * Peter Pan: Well, well! A codfish on a hook!
 * Captain Hook: I'll get you for this, Pan, if it's the last thing I do!

Taglines

 * It will live in your heart forever!

About Peter Pan (1953 film)

 * I had a particularly bad time getting started on Captain Hook. It was one of the low points of my life. These are the first scenes of him where he's walking, pacing the deck, saying, 'That Peter Pan! If I get my hook on him!,' or whatever. He was neither menacing nor foppish. This was because of the confusion in the minds of the director and story people. In story, Ed Penner had always seen Hook as a very foppish, not strong, dandy-type of guy, who loved all the finery. Gerry Geronimi, who was the director, saw him as an Ernest Torrence, a mean, heavy sort of character who used his hook menacingly.
 * Well, Walt could see something in both approaches, and I think he delighted in thinking, 'I wonder what the hell Thomas is going to do when he gets this.' If Walt would ever say, 'Aw, I don't know,' fifty people would jump up thinking, 'Here's my chance to impress Walt.' They'd say, 'I think his head's too big. I think his feet are too small. I think he's too this. I think he's too that,' hoping Walt would say, 'Yeah, I think you're right.' This time Walt came to my aid, fortunately. He said, 'Well, that last scene has something I like. I think you're beginning to get him. I think we better wait and let Frank go on a little further.'
 * Frank Thomas Thomas Johnston (1987)

Cast

 * Bobby Driscoll – Peter Pan (voice)
 * Kathryn Beaumont – Wendy Darling (voice)
 * Hans Conried – Captain Hook/George Darling (voice)
 * Bill Thompson – Mr. Smee/Other Pirates (voice)
 * Heather Angel – Mary Darling (voice)
 * Paul Collins – John Darling (voice)
 * Tommy Luske – Michael Darling (voice)
 * Candy Candido – Indian Chief (voice)
 * Tom Conway – Narrator (voice)
 * Robert Ellis – Cubby (voice)
 * Stuffy Singer – Slightly (voice)

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. During her writing career Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the 2012 National Humanities Medal, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

Quotes

 * I don’t really have an ideal reader in mind at all, whether one with or without faith. When I write it is to try to figure out something for my own purposes. It is self-indulgent really. It is much more the blank page that I write for, in some way. I have this feeling, should a problem present itself, that I should try to resolve it.
 * On if she ever envisions an ideal writer in “Marilynne Robinson: ‘I don’t have an ideal reader in mind’” in The Guardian (2018 Feb 25)

 * Cynicism induces a state of helplessness…It disables resistance to all these ills and reduces those who can see and name them into passive collaborators.” It is used as “a kind of cover for what might otherwise seem naive”.
 * On what she believes has become the default liberal position in “Marilynne Robinson: ‘Obama was very gentlemanly ... I'd like to get a look at Trump’” in The Guardian (July 6 2018)

 * I love loneliness. I consider my history with loneliness to be among my great blessings…I hasten to add that it is definitely not for everyone. It should be approached with caution.
 * On loneliness as a recurrent theme in her works in “Marilynne Robinson: ‘Obama was very gentlemanly ... I'd like to get a look at Trump’” in The Guardian (July 6 2018)

 * …People are complex — that’s the whole center of interest. I don’t make my characters complex. I have a feeling that I know a character, and one of the aspects of that is knowing that they are complex. I never have the feeling of putting a character together from a selection of qualities.
 * On the complexity of her characters in “For Marilynne Robinson, literary explorer, gifts of language reward journey” in The Harvard Gazette (2018 Jul 6)

Housekeeping (1980)

 * To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know anything so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.

 * This document explained my aunt Molly’s departure to my whole satisfaction. Even now I always imagine her leaning from the low side of some small boat, dropping her net through the spumy billows of the upper air. Her net would sweep the turning world unremarked as a wind in the grass, and when she began to pull it in, perhaps in a pell-mell ascension of formal gentlemen and thin pigs and old women and odd socks that would astonish this lower world, she would gather the net, so easily, until the very burden itself lay all in a heap just under the surface.  One last pull of measureless power and ease would spill her catch into the boat, gasping and amazed, gleaming rainbows in the rarer light.

 * Such a net, such a harvesting, would put an end to all anomaly. If it swept the whole floor of heaven, it must, finally, sweep the black floor of Fingerbone, too.  From there, we must imagine, would arise a great army of paleolithic and neolithic frequenters of the lake-berry gatherers and hunters and strayed children from those and all subsequent eons, down to the earliest present, to the faith-healing lady in the long, white robe who rowed a quarter of a mile out and tried to walk back in again just at sunrise, to the farmer who bet five dollars one spring that the ice was still strong enough for him to gallop his horse across.  Add to them the swimmers, the boaters and canoers, and in such a crowd my mother would hardly seem remarkable.  There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.  Sylvie said that in fact Molly had gone to work as a bookkeeper in a missionary hospital. It was perhaps only from watching gulls fly like sparks up the face of clouds that dragged rain the length of the lake that I imagined such an enterprise might succeed.  Or it was from watching gnats sail out of the grass, or from watching some discarded leaf gleaming at the top of the wind. Ascension seemed at such times a natural law.  If one added to it a law of completion--that everything must finally be made comprehensible--then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable.  For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business?  What are all these fragments for, if not to be knit up finally?

 * Once, Lucille and I walked beside the train to the shore. There had been a freezing rain that glazed the snow with a crust of ice, and we found that, when the sun went down, the crust was thick enough for us to walk on.  So we followed the train at a distance of twenty feet or so, falling now and then, because the glazed snow swelled and sank in dunes, and the tops of bushes and fence posts rose out of it in places where we did not expect them to be.  But by crawling up, and sliding down, and steadying ourselves against the roofs of sheds and rabbit hutches, we managed to stay just abreast of the window of a young woman with a small head and a small hat and a brightly painted face.  She wore pearl-gray gloves that reached almost to her elbows, and hooped bracelets that fell down her arms when she reached up to push a loose wisp of hair underneath her hat.  The woman looked at the window very often, clearly absorbed by what she saw, which was not but merely seemed to be Lucille and me scrambling to stay beside her, too breathless to shout.  When we came to the shore, where the land fell down and the bridge began to rise, we stopped and watched her window sail slowly away, along the abstract arc of the bridge.

Gilead (2004)

 * A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

 * I can imagine Jesus befriending my grandfather, too, frying up some breakfast for him, talking things over with him, and in fact the old man did report several experiences of just that kind.

 * Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.

 * I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires. It would have been much harder for them to roost in the sunlight, which is a thing they clearly enjoy doing.

 * It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into situations that are harmful to them. I have seen this happen many, many times. I have always had trouble finding a way to caution against it. Since it is, in a word, Christlike.

 * He could knock me down the stairs and I would have worked out the theology for forgiving him before I reached the bottom. But if he harmed you in the slightest way, I'm afraid theology would fail me.

 * Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable – which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

 * I meant to leave you a reasonably candid testament to my better self, and it seems to me now that what you must see here is just an old man struggling with the difficulty of understanding what it is he's struggling with.

 * It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

Home (2008)

 * Experience had taught them that truth had sharp edges and hard corners, and could be seriously at odds with kindness.

 * Many people find it hard to go to church if they've been away for a while. I've seen it very often. And I'd say to them, It's because it means something to you. As it should be! So, you see, there's no reason at all to be disappointed. I used to say, The Sabbath is faithful. In a week she'll be here again.

 * "That is why it is called a Spirit," he said. "The word in Hebrew also means wind. 'The Spirit of God brooded on the face of the deep.' It is a sort of enveloping atmosphere."

 * As a matter of courtesy they treated one another's deceptions like truth, which was a different thing from deceiving or being deceived. In fact, it was a great part of the fabric of mutual understanding that made their family close.

 * Her family was slower to forgive a failure of discretion than they were to forgive most things actually prohibited in Scripture.

Jack (2020)

 * She said, "Meaninglessness would come as a terrible blow to most people. It would be full of significance for them. So it wouldn't be meaningless. That's where I always end up. Once you ask if there is meaning, the only answer is yes. You can't get away from it."

 * He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly did not want to have. That memory would be as unbearable as things are when there is nothing else to do but live with them.

 * But prison was terrible. It reduced him to absolute Jack, no matter what anyone thought of him. His great problem, after all, was other people. Prison was full of them.

 * He wanted to assure her that his life was solitary and ascetic, as it was, almost past bearing, relieved by the library, occasional drunkenness, and lately by lunch with the Baptists. But he knew how this would sound, either pathetic or, better, like lying.

 * Why were there an infinite number of ways to feel awkward? He believed this was a theological question having to do with man's place in the universe. But when he felt the true force of the question, he was always in the middle of an embarrassing emergency of some kind that paralyzed reflection.

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Sarah Silverman

Sarah Kate Silverman (born 1 December 1970) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Her comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, including racism, sexism, homophobia, politics, and religion, sometimes having her comic character endorse them in a satirical or deadpan fashion. She has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on television.

1990s

 * You look like my friend Debbie. That's really weird … do you get that a lot? — It's sad, though, 'cause you know, we're not really friends anymore. But, uh, it's not your fault. Seriously, it was 'cause she's, um … not "born again Christian" … oh! — "pathological liar."
 * Comments to a member of the audience, in "Sarah Silverman-Early Standup (1992)

 * Once I was with two men in one night. But I could never do it again—I could hardly walk afterward. Two dinners? That's a lot of food.
 * Penthouse magazine (December 1999)

2000s

 * I got jury duty … and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?
 * The Conan O'Brien Show (11 July 2001) In the original joke, Silverman had said "niggers" instead of "chinks", the network asked her to change it from the first to the latter. The network and O'Brien then apologized for airing this statement, Silverman did not, stating that it was plainly satirizing the racist thought process.

 * I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.
 * To Courtney Love on her Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson (14 August 2005)

 * I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.
 * To Pamela Anderson on the Comedy Central Roast (14 August 2005)

 * Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believe it was the blacks.
 * The New Yorker (24 October 2005)

I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive — it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black teenager.
 * I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls "the real way".
 * Rolling Stone (3 November 2005)

 * I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love. Jesus' words have become so perverted over time — it's been like a game of telephone. If he existed, Jesus would fuckin' kill himself.
 * Interview with boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel for Esquire magazine (January 2007)

 * Wow! She is amazing. She is 25 years old and she's already accomplished everything she's going to accomplish in her life. It's mind blowing … have you seen Britney's kids? Oh my god, they are the most adorable mistakes you will ever see! They are as cute as the hairless vagina they came out of!
 * MTV Video Music Awards (9 September 2007)

 * This song brings me back … I was brutally raped to this song.
 * In response to the DJ playing Motley Crue's "Girls Girls Girls" as her intro. Holllywood Improv

 * People who call themselves divas...you are not a diva. I'm pretty sure you're a cunt.
 * Real Time with Bill Maher episode 145, 13 March 2009

 * Hey, is it considered molestation if the child makes the first move? I'm gonna need a quick answer on this.
 * 6 July 2009 tweet on Twitter (archived)

Jesus Is Magic (2005)

 * I wear this Saint Christopher medal sometimes, because – I'm Jewish, but my boyfriend is Catholic. It was cute, the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn't burn through my skin, it will protect me. Who cares? Different religions.

 * The only time it's an issue, I suppose, would be like if you're having a baby and you've got to figure out how you want to raise it. Which still wouldn't be an issue for us, because we'd be … honest, and just say, you know, like, "Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!"

 * Jesus is magic, you know, because he turned water to wine, and, um … he, um … I think he made the Statue of Liberty disappear in the 80's.

 * When that Jesus movie came out, Jews didn't want people to see it. Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it up on the Romans. I am one of the few people that believe it was the blacks!
 * The movie in question is Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

 * I don't care. Good! I hope the Jews did kill Christ. I'd do it again! I'd fucking do it again in a second.
 * This statement was widely circulated on social media as a way of criticizing Democrats and their political values.

 * People are always introducing me as "Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne." I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am – I'm white!

 * I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

 * The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

 * The writers of Sanford and Son were so brave in bringing their program to television. I mean, working with all those black people!

 * I dated a guy who was half-black, but he dumped me because I'm such a loser. Wow, I shouldn't say things like that. I'm such a pessimist … he's actually half-white.

 * I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, [in a gruff male voice] "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but [flattered smile] he was talking about me!

 * I've sued my manager for sexual harassment. And it's real hard, and a big strain on me. Because he hasn't done anything.

 * I was raped by a doctor … which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

 * I saw my father's penis once. But it was okay, because I was so young … and so drunk.

 * A couple nights ago, I was licking jelly off my boyfriend's penis. And I thought, "Oh my God – I'm turning into my mother!"

 * I want to get an abortion. But my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving.

 * On the law that requires women to wait twenty-four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty.

 * When God gives you AIDS – and God does give you AIDS – make lemon-AIDS!

I love you more than Jews love money, I love you more than Asians are good at math. I love you even if it's not hip, I love you more than black guys don't tip, I love you like Puerto Ricans need baths.''
 * ''I love you more than bears love honey,
 * Satirical song

The Sarah Silverman Program (2007-2010)

 * Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know … because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years … but younger black women are prostitutes.

 * I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

 * [holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.

 * If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.

 * I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

 * Sarah: If you really are a ghost, why aren't you talking like thi-i-i-s-s?
 * Ghost: That is a crude stereotype. Talking like that to a ghost is like saying the N-word to a black person.
 * Sarah: Well, interrupting a Jewish person while she's urinating is like saying the Holocaust never happened, so I guess we're e-e-e-v-e-e-n.

 * Sarah: Oh! Tig! How many lesbians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
 * Tig: … I don't know.
 * Sarah: Oh …
 * [Tig leaves]
 * Steve: She should know that.
 * Laura: I think it's three.

 * [After Sarah crashes her car]
 * Officer Jay: Do you know how many fingers I'm holding up?
 * Sarah: Uh, this many? [Sarah showing two middle fingers].

 * Police: Do you know why I'm standing here?
 * Sarah: You got all C's in high school?
 * Police: Ma'am, are you drunk?
 * Sarah: Oh no, I was driving and got tired and thought this would be a good place to stop.
 * [She's in a playground during a kid's birthday party]

2010s

 * I'll take this opportunity to answer one of the most repeated questions: why didn't I choose to depict Mohammed having sex? The answer is simple. I don't want to get blown up with explosives. I'm afraid of angering Muslims, but not afraid of angering Jews and Christians. So I chose to depict the Judeo-Christian God instead. It seems extremely obvious to me, but so many people asked.
 * The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (2010). Referring to a sketch on The Sarah Silverman Program in which her character slept with God.

 * I Hope The Jews Did Kill Christ. I’d Fucking Do It Again in a Second.
 * 26 March 2017 Times of Israel.

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Talk:Global warming

For and Against
It seems that global warming sceptics have been hard at work digging out quotations from the few scientists left who espouse their cause. Surely the number of quotations is less impressive than the evidence for global warming which seems to be growing almost every week.

 * Possibly. But this is wikiquote, not wikievidence. Please feel free to add quotes espousing a different position! We love quotes, the more the merrier :) You'll notice the page points to wikipedia's page re:Global warming, where they attempt to collect verifiable facts into an encyclopedia article, which hopefully is NPOV. I'm certain they would also appreciate any help! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 20:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, David Attenborough quoting CO2 level figures is listed as for. This quotation include just measurable facts, not a single hint that Mr. Attenborough is for or against and considers CO2 level X to be better than Y, or Y better than X. 212.77.105.136 13:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikiquote has been gradually moving away from classifying quotes as For and Against in many articles. The situation in this particular article is a bit ludicrous: Some like it hot, but none of the quotes identified as for global warming is actually advocating for warmer weather. ~ Ningauble 16:54, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Conclusion of this discussion seems to be that "for" and "against" categories are not appropriate (WQ editor consensus is to not separate into "for" and "against" sections, ambiguity whether "against" means "against climate change" (who isn't?) or "against the evidence for anthropogenic climate change"). I moved quotes denying climate change to a separate article Climate change denial. ~ Peter1c (talk) 09:56, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to.

 * There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know — except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics,
 * D. James Baker, administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

 * Gordon Brown thinks you can solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. I think you should solve climate change by changing the government.
 * Sian Berry

 * Global warming is not a prediction. It is happening.
 * James Hansen

 * Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.
 * Louise Burfitt-Dons,2008

 * "Why try to change the future when the present is so bleak?"
 * Santa Bush 11/09/2007

 * "The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human need. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. This is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now."
 * Louis Proyect, Columbia University

 * “If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.”
 * Dave Barry

 * “While human-induced global warming is not going to turn present-day Earth into present-day Mars, global warming is dire enough that our most distinguished scientists recently concluded that as many as 1 million species on the planet could be extinct by 2050 if affairs do not change.”
 * Jay Inslee

 * “In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.”
 * Ron Kind

 * “Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.”
 * Joe Lieberman

 * “Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.”
 * Joe Lieberman

 * “Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'”
 * Joe Lieberman

 * “When the penny drops to President Bush that global warming is really serious, they're going to be in trouble.”
 * James Lovelock

 * "Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism."
 * David King, UK government chief scientific adviser, January 2004.

 * "Global warming is a serious threat. There is overwhelming evidence that increasing amounts of carbon dioxide [and other gases] are heating up the Earth's climate and that inaction could be disastrous. ... [I]n this case, doing what will earn respect and support around the world is also in our own best environmental and economic interests and is the right thing to do. Even if, despite all the evidence, one chooses to remain a skeptic on climate change, taking action today -- as an insurance policy -- is the only wise course of action. As the mercury rises, so does the need for a creative solution."
 * Senator John McCain

 * "The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be eliminated [within 50 years] unless much more substantial reductions in emissions are made than those envisaged [and will] probably be irreversible, this side of a new ice age."
 * Jonathan Gregory, climatologist, University of Reading, April 2004

 * "The absolutely best case scenario - which in my opinion is unrealistic - with the minimum expected climate change... we end up with an estimate of 9% [of all species] facing extinction."
 * Chris Thomas, ecologist, University of Leeds

 * "Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded."
 * NOAA Administrator D. James Baker April 18, 2000

 * "Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible choices, for us and our children."
 * Peter Ewins, British Meteorological Office

 * "The European records, being so long, make a convincing case that we're already seeing changes ... This is not like 'Centuries from now the ice sheets will melt.' This is 'In a few decades it will be dramatically different.' To me, that's alarming."
 * Drew Shindell, NASA physicist, August 2006

 * "You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to."
 * Movie critic Roger Ebert, on Al Gore's movie about global warming, June 2, 2006

 * "...The United States is a quarter-century late in responding to global warming; serious climate change is already underway and requires action now, not later. There were warnings from the scientific community as early as 1979 and many in the 1980’s. We frittered away that chance to respond, and here is what we are up against now. If we want to avoid leaving a ruined world to our children, we are going to have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 60 percent globally and 80 percent in the United States and other developed countries, both by 2050. To do this, global emissions must peak about 2020 and decline steadily thereafter. Developed country emissions should already be declining. The United States is clearly on the wrong path. The Energy Information Administration projects that both U.S. coal use and carbon dioxide emissions are currently slated to increase by 40 percent by 2030."
 * Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2006

 * "Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now … the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization."
 * Al Gore, September 2006

 * "In comparison to 10 years ago, now all countries recognize that climate change is an important issue, that we must continue Kyoto, that the time after 2012 must be in our sights and that we must do everything possible to improve energy efficiency and, at the same time, facilitate economic growth."
 * German chancellor Angela Merkel, September 2006

 * "Preventing the transformation of the earth's atmosphere from greenhouse to unconstrained hothouse represents arguably the most imposing scientific and technical challenge that humanity has ever faced. It is local, national and international. It will affect all of us as well as all our children."
 * British environment minister David Miliband, October 2006

 * "It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial wheter HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter."
 * Lord Martin Rees, Royal Society president and Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, November 29, 2006

 * "Greenhouse gases are a class of gases that can trap heat near Earth's surface. As they increase in the atmosphere, the extra heat they trap leads to global warming. This warming in turn places pressure on Earth's climate system and can lead to climate change."
 * Tim Flannery, author of "The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth"

 * "I want to tell them that France will always be by their side when they need it, but I also want to tell them that friendship means accepting that your friends may think differently and that a great nation such as the United States has a duty not to put obstacles in the way of the fight against global warming, but on the contrary to take the lead in this fight, because what is at stake is the fate of humanity as a whole. France will make this battle its primary battle"
 * Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, May 2007

 * It is our judgement that climate change represents the largest single environmental challenge this century.
 * John bond

 * "Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple."
 * Kary Mullis, Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

 * "The only people who would be hurt by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming"
 * Professor Kirill Kondratyev, Russian Academy of Sciences 2003-10-12

 * "The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union recognizes any significant reduction in CO2 emissions by the United States will significantly reduce its economic output, thereby bringing it closer to the inferior output of European nations. Environmental advocacy groups work to stifle economic and industrial progress wherever they find it to inhibit the successful advancement of peoples in developing nations, inevitably making mankind a second class citizen of planet Earth.
 * Dr. Jay Lehr, science director, The Heartland Institute, 2004-11-19

 * "CO2 - Some call it pollution. We call it life."
 * Competitive Enterprise Institute

Questionable relevance

 * A change in our climate however is taking place very sensibly. Both heats and colds are become much more moderate within the memory even of the middle-aged. Snows are less frequent and less deep. They do not often lie, below the mountains, more than one, two, or three days, and very rarely a week. They are remembered to have been formerly frequent, deep, and of long continuance. The elderly inform me the earth used to be covered with snow about three months in every year. The rivers, which then seldom failed to freeze over in the course of the winter, scarcely ever do so now. This change has produced an unfortunate fluctuation between heat and cold, in the spring of the year, which is very fatal to fruits. From the year 1741 to 1769, an interval of twenty-eight years, there was no instance of fruit killed by the frost in the neighbourhood of Monticello. An intense cold, produced by constant snows, kept the buds locked up till the sun could obtain, in the spring of the year, so fixed an ascendency as to dissolve those snows, and protect the buds, during their developement, from every danger of returning cold. The accumulated snows of the winter remaining to be dissolved all together in the spring, produced those overflowings of our rivers, so frequent then, and so rare now.
 * Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785 (Query 7, "Climate").

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There was a suggestion that Climate Action quotes page be merged with Global Warming quotes page. I make the argument against it here https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump#Climate_Action_as_it's_own_Theme_page, because (need for a landing page, and so many quotes here plus for climate action...): but open to ideas. AnnetteCSteps (talk) 16:44, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

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Louis' Annals of Fantastic Quotes

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 * "I take after... well myself! No one else has brains in my family!" Quoted from Frankie Thomas.

 * "That sucked the gay out of George Michael's ass!" or "You're so gay you sucked the gay out of George Michael's ass!" Quoted from Dan Bradley

 * "Don't Mess with Pat!" random woman " I am Pat!" Patrick Roberts Quoted from a Random Woman in Co-Op as Patrick Roberts was arguing with a Pat who works there

 * "She's only human, like the rest of us..." Quoted by Frankie Thomas, again.

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William Edward Hartpole Lecky

William Edward Hartpole Lecky (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian and political theorist.

Quotes

 * Whence has come thy lasting power.
 * On an old Song. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * The stately ship is seen no more, The fragile skiff attains the shore; And while the great and wise decay, And all their trophies pass away, Some sudden thought, some careless rhyme, Still floats above the wrecks of Time.
 * On an old Song. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.
 * History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (1910)

 * The great difficulty of Christianity is that many of the Bible revelations seem to clash with our sense of justice and right.
 * The Religious Tendencies of the Age (1860)

 * We are Cavaliers or Roundheads before we are Conservatives or Liberals.
 * The Political Value of History (1892), p. 19

A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869)

 * At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. In each of these stages a standard is formed, different from that of the preceding stage, but in each case the same tendency is recognised as virtue.
 * Chapter 1 (2nd edition, Vol. 1, London: Longmans, 1869, p. 103)

 * It is abundantly evident, both from history and from present experience, that the instinctive shock, or natural feeling of disgust, caused by the sight of the sufferings of men is not generically different from that which is caused by the sight of the sufferings of animals.
 * Chapter 2 (2nd edition, Vol. 1, London: Longmans, 1869, p. 294)

 * The traditions that attached Greek philosophy to Egypt, the subsequent admiration for the schools of India to which Pyrrho and Anaxarchus are said to have resorted,350 the prevalence of Cynicism and Epicureanism, which agreed in inculcating indifference to political life, the complete decomposition of the popular national religions, and the incompatibility of a narrow local feeling with great knowledge and matured civilisation, were the intellectual causes of the change, and the movement of expansion received a great political stimulus when Alexander eclipsed the glories of Spartan and Athenian history by the vision of universal empire, accorded to the conquered nations the privileges of the conquerors, and created in Alexandria a great centre both of commercial intercourse and of philosophical eclecticism.
 * Chapter II. The Pagan Empire. 233

 * There was a tradition that Pythagoras had himself penetrated to India, and learnt philosophy from the gymnosophists.
 * Chapter II. The Pagan Empire. 233

 * There can indeed be little doubt that for nearly two hundred years after its establishment in Europe, the Christian community exhibited a moral purity which, if it has been equaled, has never for any long period been surpassed. Completely separated from the Roman world that was around them, abstaining alike from political life, from appeals to the tribunals, and from military occupations; looking forward continually to the immediate advent of their Master, and the destruction of the Empire in which they dwelt, and animated by all the fervor of a young religion, the Christiana found within themselves a whole order of ideas and feelings sufficiently powerful to guard them from the contamination of their age.
 * Chapter 4 (3rd edition p. 11)

 * Under these circumstances, there has arisen in society a figure which is certainly the most mournful, and in some respects the most awful, upon which the eye of the moralist can dwell. That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection, and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust; who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex, and doomed, for the most part, to disease and abject wretchedness and an early death, appears in every age as the perpetual symbol of the degradation and sinfulness of man.  Herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue.  But for her, the unchallenged purity of countless happy homes would be polluted, and not a few who, in the pride of their untempted chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder, would have known the agony of remorse and of despair.  On that one degraded and ignoble form are concentrated the passions that might have filled the world with shame.  She remains, while creeds and civilisations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people.
 * Chapter 5 (3rd edition pages 282-283).
 * Referring to the figure of the prostitute.

 * In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it. We may look in vain for any period since Constantine, in which the clergy, as a body, exerted themselves to repress the military spirit, or to prevent or abridge a particular war, with an energy at all comparable to that which they displayed in stimulating the fanaticism of the crusaders, in producing the atrocious massacre of the Albigenses, in embittering the religious contests that followed the Reformation.
 * Chapter 5 (3rd edition p. 254)

 * There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.
 * Chapter 5 (3rd edition p. 303)

The map of life; conduct and character (1899)

 * Men continually forget that Happiness is a condition of Mind, and not a disposition of circumstances, and one of the most common of errors is that of confusing happiness with the means of happiness, sacrificing the first for the attainment of the second.
 * Chapter 2 (1904 edition, p7.)

 * Ambition is the luxury of the happy. It is sometimes, but more rarely, the consolation and distraction of the wretched...
 * Chapter 2 (1904 edition, p23.)

Quoted by Lecky

 * The great art in politics consists not in hearing those who speak, but in hearing those who are silent.
 * The map of life; conduct and character (1899), Chapter X (1904 edition, p140.), Lecky says 'As a French writer has said..'

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Samuel F. B. Morse

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor, and painter of portraits and historic scenes.

Quotes

 * What hath God wrought?
 * Quoted in John F. Stover, History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (1987, Purdue University Press), ISBN 0-911198-81-4, pp. 59–60
 * Message sent by Morse to officially open the first telegraph line, from Baltimore to Washington, on May 24, 1844

 * The birth and inauguration of the generic telegraph has not only opened a new field for the labors, and given direction to the ingenuity of the mechanician, suggesting numerous varieties of form and distribution of parts, but it has also give a fresh impulse to the researches of the philosopher into the mysteries of the most efficient agent, electricity. It has been the servant of the astronomer; it has assisted in the determination of longitudes; ... it has promoted the science of meteorology, and been tributary in many ways to the advancement of our knowledge of terrestrial phenomena. ...

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey (1817) is a novel by Jane Austen. An early version, called Susan was completed in 1803, but was not published. Austen revised the manuscript in 1816, and it was published as Northanger Abbey after her death in 1817.

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 * Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying–in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books — or at least books of information — for, provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
 * Chapter 1, paragraph 3 (one of the earliest references to baseball in English literature, Oxford English Dictionary)

 * But Mrs. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.

Chapter 2

 * Mrs. Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them. p. 34, 2013

 * As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. p. 36, 2013

Chapter 3

 * Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again. p. 50, 2013

 * Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. p. 52, 2013

 * “As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to be that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars.” “And what are they?” “A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.” p. 52, 2013

 * Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers. And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens — there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. "I am no novel-reader — I seldom look into novels — Do not imagine that I often read novels — It is really very well for a novel." Such is the common cant. "And what are you reading, Miss — ?" "Oh! It is only a novel!" replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.

Chapter 6

 * "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature." - Isabella Thorpe

Chapter 14

 * "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Mr. Tilney

 * "But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. ... it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

 * “Historians, you think,” said Miss Tilney, “are not happy in their flights of fancy. They display imagination without raising interest.”, p. 226, 2013

 * “That little boys and girls should be tormented,” said Henry, “is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny; but in behalf of our most distinguished historians, I must observe, that they might well be offended at being supposed to have no higher aim; and that by their method and style, they are perfectly well qualified to torment readers of the most advanced reason and mature time of life.”, p. 226, 2013

 * “I use the verb ‘to torment,’ as I observed to be your own method, instead of ‘to instruct,’ supposing them to be now admitted as synonimous.”, p. 228, 2013

 * You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonimous words., p. 228, 2013

 * But historians are not accountable for the difficulty of learning to read; and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it., p. 228, 2013

 * Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half., p. 228, 2013

 * A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

 * From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Volume 2, Chapter 1

 * Me?— yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible., p. 268, 2013

Volume 2, Chapter 2

 * A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride., p. 284, 2013

Volume 2, Chapter 3

 * If we do not have hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough., p. 294, 2013

Volume 2, Chapter 4

 * No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment., p. 302, 2013

 * It is probable that she will neither love so well, nor flirt so well, as she might do either singly., p. 302, 2013

 * Nay, if it is to be guess-work, let us all guess for ourselves. To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful.  The premises are before you., p. 302, 2013

 * I will not say, ‘Do not be uneasy,’ because I know that you are so, at this moment; but be as little uneasy as you can., p. 304, 2013

Volume 2, Chapter 7

 * You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible., p. 356, 2013

 * The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.

Volume 2, Chapter 9

 * I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving ready-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured., p. 428, 2013

Volume 2, Chapter 10

 * Prepare for your sister-in-law, Eleanor, and such a sister-in-law as you must delight in! Open, candid, artless, guileless, with affections strong but simple, forming no pretensions, and knowing no disguise.

Volume 2, Chapter 13

 * His departure gave Catherine the first expermental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain., p. 448, 2013

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John Barrymore

John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor of the early 20th century.

Quotes

 * Don't worry. For a man who has been dead for fifteen years I am in remarkable health. Love. Mr. Barrymore.
 * Telegram sent to Garson Kanin regarding Barrymore's rumored stroke following his collapse prior to a 1939 performance of Catherine Turney's My Dear Children at the Selwyn Theater in Chicago, as quoted in Kanin's Hollywood (1974), p. 45

 * Orson Welles? What are they?
 * When asked by a radio interviewer what he thought of his old friend (about one week prior to portraying Cassius to Welles' in a scene from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, performed live on Rudy Vallée's radio program); as quoted in "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Orson in Wonderland," Los Angeles Times (December 14, 1940)

 * A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
 * Quoted in Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince (1943)

 * He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
 * The Stage January (1941) (J. P. McEvoy)

About John Barrymore

 * Mr. [John] Barrymore’s smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don’t.
 * Robert Benchley, The New Yorker (October 17, 1936)

 * The death of John Barrymore made us think again for a minute of F. Scott Fitzgerald. They were very different men: a lot alike. Undoubtedly, they both worked hard, but there was the same sense of a difficult technique easily mastered (too easily perhaps); there was the same legend of great physical magnetism, working incessantly for its own destruction; there was the same need for public confession, either desperate or sardonic; and there was always a good deal of time wasted, usually accompanied by the sweet smell of grapes. We have seen Scott Fitzgerald when everything he said was a childish parody of his own talent, and the last time we saw John Barrymore he was busy with a sick and humiliating parody of his. The similarity probably ends there. Up to the day he died, we believe, Fitzgerald still kept his original and eager devotion to his profession, along, we like to think, with the strict confidence that he might still achieve the strict perfection that was so often almost his. Barrymore, on the other hand, had given up long ago.
 * Wolcott Gibbs, Season in the Sun (1951)

 * I know that back in the twenties everyone who saw it judged John Barrymore's Hamlet to be unforgettable. Great though it was, I found his Richard III even more impressive. Barrymore's sinister, half-mad hunchback became incandescent as he gleefully anticipated his conquest of the Lady Anne. The genius of the actor contrived a slight but inspired alteration of Shakespeare's: 'Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?' The change to 'Never was woman in this manner wooed; never was woman in this manner won' heightened the deviltry in Richard's gloating.
 * Marc Connelly Voices offstage: a book of memoirs, (1968) p. 237; Cited in: Michael A. Morrison (1999) John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor. p. 345

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