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Geddy Lee

Geddy Lee (born Gary Lee Weinrib on 28 July 1953) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush.

Quotes

 * Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees. Success to failure, Just a matter of degrees. Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees...
 * "Working at Perfekt"
 * Cinderella man, Doing what you can, They can't understand what it means Cinderella man, Hang on to your plans, Try as they might, they cannot steal your dreams
 * "Cinderella Man"

Global Bass interview (2000)

 * "The Consummate Geddy Lee Interview"

 * For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
 * I love to write. It's my first love.
 * Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
 * Once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary (2010)

 * Regardless of what you want to say about KISS, musically or otherwise, there was no harder-working band than KISS. And there was no band more determined to put on a spectacular show and give people their money's worth than KISS. That was a great thing to see as an opening act. We were so impressionable, and we were so green...they were very good to us. Those guys liked to have a good time!

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User talk:Repiano~enwikiquote

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The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 is a screwball comedy film, telling a fictitious story about the invention of the hula hoop.
 * Directed by Joel Coen. Written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Sam Raimi.

A Comedy of Invention.taglines

Norville Barnes

 * [repeated line] You know, for kids.
 * For instance, take a look at this sweet baby. [Shows a drawn circle on a piece of paper] I developed it myself. Yessirie, this is my big ticket upstairs. You know, for kids.
 * Fight on! Fight on dear old Muncie! Fight on hoist the gold and blue! You'll be tattered, torn, and hurtin' once the Munc' is done with you! Gooooooooooooo Eagles!
 * I wasn't expecting all this hoopla. You can quote me on that.
 * Well look who it is. Amy Archer, Prizeter Pule winner.

Moses the Clock Man
Strictly speaking, I'm never supposed to do this. But you have any better ideas?
 * [Prologue] That's right. New York. It's 1958. Anyway, for a few more minutes it is. Come midnight it's gonna be 1959. A whole 'nother feelin'. The New Year. The future. Yeah ole daddy Earth fixin' to start one more trip 'round the sun and everybody hopin' this ride 'round be a little more giddy, a little more gay. Yep, all over town champagne corks is a-poppin'. Over in the Waldorf the big shots is dancin' to the strains of Guy Lombardo. Down in Times Square the little folks is a watchin' and waitin' for that big ball to drop. They all tryin' to catch hold of one moment of time. To be able to say "Right now! This is it! I got it!" 'Course by then it'll be past. But they all happy, everybody havin' a good time. Well, almost everybody. They's a few lost souls floatin' 'round out there. Now if ya'll ain't from the city, we have something here called "the rat race." Got a way of chewing folks up so that they don't want no celebrating, don't want no cheerin' up, and don't care nothing 'bout no New Year's. Out of hope. Out of rope. Out of time. This here is Norville Barnes. That office he's steppin' out of is the office of the president of Hudsucker Industries. It's his office. How'd he get so high? And why is he feelin' so low? Is he really gonna do it? Is Norville really gonna jelly up the sidewalk? Well, the future, that's something you can't never tell about. But the past, that's another story.
 * [having just rammed a broom handle through a clock, thus freezing time. Line spoken to camera]
 * And so began 1959, the new year. When he learned that Norville owned the comp'ny, ol' Sidney was upset at first. It's a good thing Doc Bromfenbrenner was there because he was able to keep Sidney from harmin' his ol' self.
 * And Norville, he went on an' ruled with wisdom and compassion and started dreamin' up them excitin' new ideas again.
 * And that's the story of how Norville Barnes climbed waaay up to the forty-fourth floor of the Hudsucker Building, and then fell all the way down but didn't quite squish hisself. You know, they say there was a man who jumped from the forty-FIFTH floor? But that's another story.

Buzz the Elevator Operator

 * Hiya, buddy, my name's Buzz. I got the fuzz I make the elevator do what she does.
 * Say, buddy, what takes fifty years to get up to the top floor and thirty seconds to get down? Waring Hudsucker! Ya get it, buddy?
 * Say, buddy, who's the most liquid businessman on the street? Waring Hudsucker! Say buddy, when is a sidewalk fully dressed? When it's Waring Hudsucker! You get it buddy! It's a pun, it's a knee-slapper, it's a play on- Jesus, Joseph, and Mary! Is that a Blue Letter! Christ Almighty, why didn't you tell a guy! Hold on folk, we'll express to the top floor.

Sidney J. Mussburger

 * [repeated line] Sure, sure.
 * Up! Up on your feet! We don't crawl here at Hudsucker Industries.
 * Not that way, through the door!
 * This better be good. I'm in a bad mood.

Amy Archer

 * I'll stake my Pulitzer on it!
 * Well, come on down here, hammerhead, and I'll show it to ya!
 * Why he has a face only a mother could love... on payday.
 * Don't you remember how you used to feel about the hoop? You told me you were gonna bring a smile to the hips of everyone in America, regardless of race, creed or color. Finally there'd be a thingumajig that would bring everyone together -- even if it kept 'em apart, spatially.
 * I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you WERE a swell guy... A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy. Well, maybe you're not so slow, But you're not so swell either. And it looks like you're an imbecile after all!

Other

 * Mail Room Orienter: [Spoken/Shouted very quickly] You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it's a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o'clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock you. Letter size a green voucher, oversize a yellow voucher, parcel size a maroon voucher. Wrong color voucher and they dock you! 6787049A/6. That is your employee number. It will not be repeated! Without your employee number you cannot get your paycheck. Inter-office mail is code 37, intra-office mail 37-3, outside mail is 3-37. Code it wrong and they dock you! This has been your orientation. Is there anything you do not understand, is there anything you understand only partially? If you have not been fully oriented, you must file a complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you!
 * [This speech lasts exactly 60 seconds]

 * Public Address System: Attention all Hudsucker employees. Attention all Hudsucker employees. We regretfully announce that at thirty seconds after the hour of noon, Hudsucker time, Waring Hudsucker, Founder, President, and Chairman of the Board of Hudsucker Industries, merged with the infinite. To mark this occasion of corporate loss, we ask that all employees observe a moment of silent contemplation. [moment of silence] Thank you for your kind attention. This moment has been duly-noted on your time cards and will be deducted from your pay. That is all.

 * Hutchinson: You! Yah, you, Barnes. You don't look busy! Think you can handle a blue letter? This letter was sent down this morning by the big guy himself! 'At's right, Waring Hudsucker! It's addressed to Sid Mussburger! Hudsucker's right-hand man! It's a Blue Letter! That means you put it right in Mussburger's hand. No secretaries! No receptionists! No colleagues! No excuses! MUSSBURGER!

 * Bumstead: No magazines. No coffee. Mussburger! I wanna see Mussburger! Or did he jump out a window too?

Dialogue

 * [Following Waring Hudsucker's suicide]
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: It's a pity to waste a whole Montecristo.
 * Board Member 1: He could have opened the window.
 * Board Member 2: Waring Hudsucker never did anything the easy way.
 * Myron Addison: [crying] Yeah, but why? Why did he do it? Everything was going so well.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: What am I, a head shrinker? Maybe the man was unhappy.
 * Myron Addison: He didn't look unhappy.
 * Board Member 4: He didn't look rich.
 * Board Member 5: Waring Hudsucker was never an easy man to figure out. He built this company with his bare hands, every step he took was a step up... except of course this last one.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Sure, sure, he was a swell fella. But when the president, chairman of the board, and owner of eighty-seven precent of the company stock drops... forty-four floors...
 * Board Member 6: Forty-five!
 * Board Member 7: Counting the mezzanine.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: ...then the company too has a problem. Stillson, what exactly is the disposition of Waring's stock?
 * Stillson: Well, as you know, Hud left no will and had no family. The company bylaws are quite clear in that event. His entire portfolio will be converted into common stock and be sold over the counter as of the first of the fiscal year following his demise.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Meaning?
 * Stillson: Well, meaning simply that Waring's stock, and control of the company, will be made available to the public January 1st.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Do you mean to say that any slob in a smelly T-shirt will be able to buy Hudsucker's stock?
 * Stillson: The company bylaws are quite clear.
 * Myron Addison: My God, you're animals! How can you discuss his stock when the man has just leapt forty-five floors?
 * Board Member 6: Forty-four!
 * Board Member 7: Not counting the mezzanine.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Quit showboating, Addison, the man is gone. The question now is whether we're going to let John Q. Public just waltz in here and buy our company!
 * Board Member 4: What are you suggesting Sidney? Certainly we can't afford to buy an controlling interest.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Not while the stock is this strong. How soon before Hud's paper hits the market?
 * Board Member 8: January 1st.
 * Board Member 2: Thirty days.
 * Board Member 4: Four weeks.
 * Board Member 5: A month at the most!
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: One month... to make the blue chip investment of the century look like a round-trip ticket on the Titanic.
 * Board Member 7: We play up the fact that Hud is dead...
 * All: Long live the Hud!
 * Board Member 4: We depress the stock...
 * Board Member 5: ...to the point where we can buy back fifty percent!
 * Board Member 6: Fifty-one.
 * Board Member 7: Not counting the mezzanine.
 * Board Member 5: It could work!
 * Board Member 3: It should work.
 * Board Member 4: It would work!
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: It's working already. Waring Hudsucker is abstract art on Madison Avenue. What we need now is a new president who will inspire panic in the stockholder.
 * Board Member 6: A puppet!
 * Board Member 5: A proxy!
 * Board Member 2: A pawn!
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Sure, sure. Some jerk we can really push around.

 * [While sorting letters in the mail room]
 * Norville Barnes: Say, what do you do when the envelopes too big for the slot?
 * Ancient Sorter: Well, if you fold 'em, they fire ya. I usually throw 'em out.
 * Norville Barnes: Just got hired today.
 * Ancient Sorter: [coldy] Terrific.
 * Norville Barnes: You know, entry level.
 * Ancient Sorter: Tell me about it.
 * Norville Barnes: But I've got big ideas.
 * Ancient Sorter: I'm sure you do.
 * Norville Barnes: For instance, take a look at this sweet baby. [Shows a drawn circle on a piece of paper] I developed it myself. Yessirie, this is my big ticket upstairs. [Ancient Sorter looks at Norville, confused] You know, for kids.
 * Ancient Sorter: Terrific.
 * Norville Barnes: So, it sees how I won't be working in the mailroom long.
 * Ancient Sorter: No, I don't guess you will be.
 * Norville Barnes: How long you been here?
 * Ancient Sorter: Forty-eight years. Next year they move me up to parcels... if I'm lucky.

 * Buzz: Mr. Kline, up to nine. Mrs. Dell, personnel. Mr. Levin's thirty-seven.
 * Mr. Levin: Thirty-six.
 * Buzz: Walk down! Ladies and gentlemen, step to the rear; here comes the gargantuan Mr. Grier.
 * Mr. Grier: Buzz.

 * Norville Barnes: Hullo.
 * Receptionist: Do you have an appointment?
 * Norville Barnes: Uhh, no, I...
 * Receptionist: Shall we look in the book, hmmm? [takes out a huge book]
 * Norville Barnes: No, ma'am, ya see, I...
 * Receptionist: We don't seem to be in the book...
 * Norville Barnes: I wouldn't be in the book.
 * Receptionish: If we had an appointment, we'd be in the book...
 * Norville Barnes: I know but ya see I have this, uh, oh here it is. [Takes out the Blue Letter]

 * Sidney J. Mussburger: This better be good. I'm in a bad mood.
 * Norville Barnes: Well, sir. I've got something for you from the mailroom, but first if I could just take a minute or so from your very valuable time to show you a little something I've been working on for the last two or three years. [Shows him the drawing of the circle, but sees that it's upside down and flips it over]. You know, for kids! Which is perfect for Hudsucker not that I claim to be any great genius; like they say, inspiration is ninty-nine percent perspiration, and in my case I'd say it's at least twice that, but I gotta tell ya, Mr. Mussburger, sir, this sweet baby-
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Wait a minute!

 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Let's get to know one another, shall we? Let's chat man to man. Now you're from the basement, aren't you? And weren't blessed with much... education?
 * Norville Barnes: Well, I am college graduate.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: But you didn't excel in your studies?
 * Norville Barnes: Well, I made the Dean's List.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Oh.
 * Norville Barnes: At the Muncie College of Business Administration.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: [laughs] Oh. And your friends called you "jerk" didn't they?
 * Norville Barnes: No.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Dope? Dipstick? Lamebrain? Schmoe? Not even behind you back?
 * Norville Barnes: No, as a matter of fact they voted me most likely to succeed.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: You're fired.

 * Luigi: Mr. Moose-burger, I give-a you pants a nice-a dooble stitch, eh? Make 'em strong, and they look-a real sharp.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: No, single stitch is fine.
 * Luigi: But the double stitch will last forever.
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Why on earth would I want a double stitch? To pad your account? Single stitch is fine.
 * [Cut to Later]'
 * Luigi: Ah, what the heck. Mr. Moose-burger is such a nice man, I'm gonna give him a double stitch anyway. That's some strong stitch, you bet.

 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: [to Norville entering the elevator] Say, buddy! Where'd ya get the new duds? And say, buddy! How'd old bucketbutt like his Blue Letter? [laughs] Did he bust a gut? Did he die? Did he - [Mussburger enters the elevator] Well, hello, Mr. Mussburger, sir...
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Lobby. We haven't got all day.
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Right away, Mr. Mussburger sir. How're you this fine morning, sir?
 * [The elevator doors open in the lobby]
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: It's been a pleasure serving you, Mr. Mussburger. And it's been a pleasure serving you too, uh... buddy.

 * Lou: I got gas, Bennie.
 * Bennie: Yeah...tell me about it.
 * Lou: No kiddin', Bennie. I got gas.
 * Bennie: Ya get the special?
 * Lou: Fah from it... [wistles as Amy enters the diner] ...Enter the dame.
 * Bennie: There's one in every story.
 * Lou: Ten bucks says she's looking for a handout.
 * Bennie: Twenty bucks says not here she don't find one.
 * Lou: She's looking for her mark.
 * [Amy sits next to Norville]
 * Lou: She finds him.
 * Bennie: She sits down and orders a light lunch. [Amy orders lunch from the waitress] How will she pay for this lunch?
 * Lou: She looks in her purse...
 * [Amy holds her wallet upside down]
 * Bennie: No money.
 * Lou: The mark notices.
 * Bennie: He's not noticing, Bennie.
 * Lou: Maybe he's wise.
 * Bennie: He don't look wise. Plan two: Here come the waterworks.
 * [Amy begins to cry]
 * Lou Yellowstone.
 * Bennie: Old Faithful.
 * Lou: Hello, Niagara.
 * [Amy elbow Norville]
 * Bennie: He notices. He's concerned.
 * Lou: She explains her predicament, and...
 * Both: ...Enter the light lunch.
 * [The waitress serves Amy's lunch as Amy continues to talk to Norville]
 * Bennie: She's got other problems, of course.
 * Lou: There's illness in the family.
 * Bennie: Her mother needs an operation...
 * Lou: Adenoids.
 * Bennie: [with Amy] Lumbago. Oh, that gag's got whiskers on it.
 * Lou: She's losing him, Bennie.
 * Bennie: Maybe he's wise.
 * Lou: He don't look wise.
 * [Norville turns to leave]
 * Bennie: How does she pull this out?
 * Lou: She better think fast.
 * Bennie: She isn't.
 * [Amy places her hand on her forehead]
 * Both: She is!
 * [Amy faints so that Norville has no choice but to catch her and holds her awkwardly, looking around for help]
 * Lou: She's good, Bennie.
 * Bennie: She's damn good, Lou.
 * Waitress: [interrupts] Can I get you boys anything else?
 * Bennie: Bromo.
 * Lou: Bromo.

 * Norville Barnes: [calls mailroom] Good afternoon to you, this is Norville Barnes.
 * Hutchinson: Barnes! Where the hell have you been!? Where's my voucher!?
 * Norville Barnes: [checks pockets] Not sure where I...
 * Hutchinson: I need the voucher! I told you a week ago it was important!
 * Norville Barnes: Look, I'm President of the Company now --
 * Hutchinson: I don't care if you're PRESIDENT of the company!! I need the voucher now!

 * Amy Archer: Is this guy from Chumpsville? Ha! I even pulled the old mother routine.
 * Smitty, Argus reporter: Adenoids.
 * Amy Archer: Lumbago.
 * Smitty, Argus reporter: [whistles] That gag's got whiskers on it!

 * Sidney J. Mussburger: And this is Thorstensen Finlandsen, who heads a radical splinter group of disgruntled investors.
 * Norville Barnes: Pleased to meet you, Mr. Finlandsen. You know, I studied a little Finnish back in college myself. Let's see what was that. [says something offensive in Finnish]
 * [Finlandsen throws his drink on Norville and punches him]

 * [Amy finds Norville out on the balcony with an ice pack on his eye]
 * Amy Archer: Norville? What happened?
 * Norville Barnes: Oh. Nothing, really, just the more timid investors are no longer running for cover.
 * Amy Archer: Let me look.
 * Norville Barnes: Sid found me the icepack.
 * Amy Archer: Let me hold it, or you'll have a real shiner.
 * Norville Barnes: Thanks. People seem to be pretty hot over this imbecile story.
 * Amy Archer: I'm sorry.
 * Norville Barnes: Oh, it isn't your fault, Amy. You're the one person who's been standing by me through all this.
 * Amy Archer: Norville, there's something I have to tell you. You see, I'm not really a secretary.
 * Norville Barnes: I know that, Amy.
 * Amy Archer: You do!?
 * Norville Barnes: I understand that you're not very skilled yet in the secretarial arts. I'm not that skilled as president. Oh sure, I put up a big front not that everyone's buying it.
 * Amy Archer: I believe in you, Norville. At least I believe in your intentions --
 * Norville Barnes: Oh, I don't blame them, really. I guess I have sort of made a mess of things. These folks have to protect their investment. Most of them are very nice people --
 * Amy Archer: Listen, Norville, you can't trust people here like you did in Muncie. Certain people are --
 * Norville Barnes: Did you ever go to the top of old man Larson's feed tower and look out over the town?
 * Amy Archer: What?
 * Norville Barnes: You know, on Farm Route 17.
 * Amy Archer: Oh yes! In Muncie!
 * Norville Barnes: No, in Vidalia. Farm Route 17?
 * Amy Archer: Uh, yes. 17! Yes, I... well...
 * Norville Barnes: The boys from varsity use to take their girlfriends up there to hold hands, except... I never made varsity.
 * Amy Archer: There's a place I go now, the cutest little place near my apartment in Greenwich Village. It's called Ann's 440; it's a beatnik bar.
 * Norville Barnes: A beatnik bar!
 * Amy Archer: Yes!
 * Norville Barnes: You don't say.
 * Amy Archer: You can get carrot juice or Italian coffee! And the people there are... well, none of them quite fit in. You'd love it. Why don't you come there with me. They're having a marathon poetry reading on New Year's Eve. I go every year.
 * Norville Barnes: Every year?
 * Amy Archer: Well, this year... if it's good, I plan to make it a tradition. [laughs and changes subjects] My it certainly is beautiful. The people look like ants.
 * Norville Barnes: Well, the Hindus say, and the beatniks also, that in the next life some of us will come back as ants. Some will be butterflies. Others will be elephants or creatures of the sea.
 * Amy Archer: What a beautiful thought.
 * Norville Barnes: Say, what do you think you were in your previous life, Amy?
 * Amy Archer: Oh, I don't know. Maybe I was just a fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys.
 * Norville Barnes: Oh no, Amy, pardon me for saying so but I find that very farfetched.
 * Amy Archer: Norville, there really is something I have to tell you --
 * Norville Barnes: That kind of person would come back as a wildebeest, or a warthog. No, I think it more likely that you were a gazelle, with long, graceful legs, gamboling through the underbrush. Perhaps we met once, a chance encounter in a forest glade. I must have been an antelope or an ibex. What times we must have had. Foraging together for sustenance, snorfling water from a forest stream, picking the grubs and burrs from one another's coats. Or perhaps we simply touched our horns briefly and went our separate ways.
 * Amy Archer: I wish it were that simple, Norville. I wish I was still a gazelle, and you were an antelope or an ibex.
 * Norville Barnes: Well, can I at least call you deer? [laughs] Seriously, Amy, the whole thing is what your beatnik friends call a karm-AH –-
 * Amy Archer: Karma.
 * Norville Barnes: -- the great circle of life.
 * Amy Archer: Yeah, yeah. I think I've heard of that. What goes around comes around.
 * Norville Barnes: That's it. A great wheel that gives us each what we deserve... Golly, tomorrow's my big presentation to the board. I've gotta show Sidney and the guys that I deserve all their confidence!
 * Amy Archer: [sadly] Oh...
 * Norville Barnes: Kiss me once, Amy! Kiss me once for luck!
 * Amy Archer: Sure, Norville.
 * [Amy gives him a peck. They look at each other and then embraces and kiss again passionately]

 * [Norville is showing the board his new invention: the hula-hoop]
 * Norville Barnes: You know, for kids! It has economy, simplicity, low production cost and the potential for mass appeal, and all that spells out great profitability! I had the boys down at R & D throw together this prototype so that our discussion here could have some focus and to give you gentlemen of the Board a first-hand look at just how exciting this gizmo is! Its fun, it's healthy, it's good exercise; kids'll just love it, and we put a little sand inside to make the experience more pleasant. But the great part is we won't have to charge an arm and a leg!
 * Board Member 1: What if you're tired before it's done?
 * Board Member 2: Does it have rules?
 * Board Member 3: Can more than one play?
 * Board Member 4: What makes you think it's a game?
 * Board Member 3: Is it a game?
 * Board Member 5: Will it break?
 * Board Member 6: It better break eventually!
 * Board Member 2: Is there an object?
 * Board Member 1: What if you're tired before it's done?
 * Board Member 5: Does it come with batteries?
 * Board Member 4: We could charge extra for them.
 * Board Member 7: Is it safe for toddlers?
 * Board Member 3: How can you tell when you're finished?
 * Board Member 2: How do you make it stop?
 * Board Member 6: Is that a boy's model?
 * Board Member 3: Can a parent assemble it?
 * Board Member 5: Is there a larger model for the obese?
 * Board Member 1: What if you're tired before it's done?
 * Board Member 8: What the hell is it?
 * Norville Barnes: Well, it's, uh... it's uh...
 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Brilliant! It's genius. It's just exactly what Hudsucker needs at this juncture. Sure, sure, even a blind man could tell you that there's an enormous demand for this, uh... Congratulations, kid, you've really outdone yourself; you've reinvented the wheel. I'm going to recommend to the Board that we proceed immediately with this, uh... with the, uh... that the dingus be mass-produced with all deliberate speed. All though you realize, of course, as president of the company the ultimate decision is yours.
 * Norville Barnes: Well, I'm for it!

 * [Norville is sleeping at his desk]
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Say, Buddy... Ya busy?
 * Norville Barnes: [wakes up] Huh-whuh?
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Looks like ya nodded off there! Say, buddy, ya got a minute?
 * Norville Barnes: Buzz... Is it important?
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: I like to think so! It's this little idea I been working on. Ya see, I don't intend to be an elevator boy forever. Take a look at this sweet baby! [shows Norville a drawing of a circle] Ya get it, buddy? Incredibly convenient, isn't it? You know, for drinks. [shows Norville a straw] This is how it works, it's these little ridges on the side that give it its whammy! See, ya don't have to drink like this nomore; now you can drink like this. [bends staw] I call it the Buzz-Sucker, get it, buddy? After me! Why, people are just dyin' for a product like this, and the great thing is we won't have to charge an arm and a --
 * Norville Barnes: Wait a minute! [He looks at it like when Mussburger first looked at his own invention] This is worthless.
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator:Huh?! But, buddy --
 * Norville Barnes: This is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen in my life!
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Yeah, but, buddy --
 * Norville Barnes: Nobody wants a hare-brained product like this! Ya see, Buzz, it lacks the creative spark, the unalloyed genius that made, say, [hiccup] the hula hoop such a success.
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: But, buddy --
 * Norville Barnes: What do you mean barging in here and taking up my valuable time! I've got a company to run here!
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: [laughs] But, buddy, you were --
 * Norville Barnes: I can't have every deadbeat on the Hudsucker payroll pestering me with their idiotic brainwaves!
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Geez, buddy, I'm sorry.
 * Norville Barnes: An example must be made!
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Whaddya mean, buddy?
 * Norville Barnes: You're fired! Is that plain enough for you, buster?!
 * [Buzz begins to bawl and grabs Norville's legs]
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Awwww, buddy --
 * Norville Barnes: And don't call me buddy! Out of here!
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: Aw, please, sir! This job, just running the elevator, it's all I got! I understand if ya don't like the Buzz-Sucker! Just, please, let me keep my job! I'm prayin' to ya!
 * Norville Barnes: Get out of my office! Get out! [Buzz crawls away crying] Up! Up on your feet! We don't crawl here at Hudsucker Industries! Get out! And leave your uniform in the locker room!
 * Buzz the Elevator Operator: I'm sorry, sir... I'm sorry...

 * Sidney J. Mussburger: Sure, sure, the kid's screwy. It's official. The barred-window boys are out looking for him now, and we'll see how Wall Street likes the news that the President of Hudsucker Industries is headed for the booby-hatch. Why, when the doc gets through with him he'll need diapers and a dribble cup. Well, if that's all...
 * All Board Members: Long live the Hud!

 * Scientist on TV: Ze dingus is quite simple, really. It operates on ze same principle zat keeps ze Earth in orbit around ze sun, and which keeps you from flying off ze Earth into ze cold reaches of space where you would die like a miserable swine. Yes, ze principle is the same... except for ze piece of grit zey put inside to make ze experience... more pleasant.

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 * Waring Hudsucker: [after singing She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain] Love that tune. How ya doin', kid?
 * Norville Barnes: Mr. Hudsucker?
 * Waring Hudsucker: [points to his halo] Hey, how do you like that thing? They're all wearin' up stairs. It's a fad. Anyway, I hear your having some, uh, problems with the board. I guess Sidney's been puttin' the screws to ya, huh, Norman?
 * Norville Barnes: Norville.
 * Waring Hudsucker: Yeah, yeah. Well, say what you like about the man's ethics, he's a balls-to-the-wall businessman. Beat ya any way he can. Straight for the jugular. Very effective. Any particular reason you didn't give him my Blue Letter? Jesus, Norman, just a dying man's last words and wishes, no big deal.
 * Norville Barnes: Mr. Hudsucker, I must of mislaid it --
 * Waring Hudsucker: It's sittin' in your apron pocket, right where you left it. Imbecile. Failure to deliver a Blue Letter is grounds for dismissal.
 * Norville Barnes: Oh geez sir...
 * Waring Hudsucker: Ah, it's New Year's, I'm not gonna add to your woes. I'm just saying. Anyway, you wanna read it? You might learn something. Might keep ya from jumpin' outta anymore windows.

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 * Norville Barnes: "Blue Letter. From: the desk of Waring Hudsucker. To: Sidney J. Mussburger. Regarding: My demise. Dear Sid. By the time you read this, I will have joined the organization upstairs -- an exciting new beginning. I will retain fond mem-memor..."
 * Waring Hudsucker: Memories.
 * Norville Barnes: "...of the memories of the many years that you and I have spent --"
 * Waring Hudsucker: Yeah, yeah, it's the standard resignation boilerplate. Go down to the second paragraph.
 * Norville: "You have no dought been wondering why I have decided to end my tenure at Hudsucker, and here on Earth. Granted, from the standpoint of our balance sheet and financials, sure, sure, we're doing fine. However, Sid, I have made grave errors. My vanity drove away she who could've saved me. Oh yes, I loved a woman once, Sid, as you well know. A beautiful, vibrant lady, an angel who in her wisdom saw fit to choose you instead of I..." Mr. Hudsucker?
 * Waring Hudsucker: [crying] Skip this part. Next page. [stops crying] Next page!

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 * Norville Barnes: [reading from the Blue Letter] "...the new president should be free to fall --"
 * Waring Hudsucker: Fail.
 * Norville Barnes: "...so he can learn and then fail --"
 * Waring Hudsucker: Fall!
 * Norville Barnes: "...and rise up."

Taglines

 * A Comedy of Invention.
 * They took him for a fall guy... but he threw them for a hoop.
 * At Hudsucker industries there's a fast way to the top...and an even faster way down!

Cast

 * Tim Robbins — Norville Barnes
 * Paul Newman — Sidney J. Mussburger
 * Jennifer Jason Leigh — Amy Archer
 * Bruce Campbell — Smitty, Argus reporter
 * Bill Cobbs — Moses the Clock Man
 * Jim True-Frost — Buzz the Elevator Operator
 * I.M. Hobson - Myron Addison, a Board Member

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User:66.134.206.66

This is my IP address. I do not have an account here, but I do at Wikipedia. When I joined there on November 18, 2005, I had cookies enabled so as to allow me to register an account. While I still have cookies enabled, my computer has slowed down a bit (it's only five years old), so I cannot register here. However, I am not very active on any other Wikipedias other than the English anyway, so I won't expect to be to active here.

I may spruce up this page and my other ones on Wikipedia and the Commons later. (Example: the design of my Wikipedia user page)

Well, happy editing, those who stumbled across me.

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Alex Trebek

George Alexander Trebek (July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020), OC was an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American television personality and game show host, best known as the host of the game show Jeopardy! from 1984 until his death in 2020.

Quotes

 * I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.
 * Jacobs, A.J. The Know-It-All, pg 102.
 * What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
 * Justinson, C.H.L. Down and Dirty, pg 32.
 * Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
 * "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek", Esquire, March 2003.
 * Don’t ask me who’s going to replace me because I have no say whatsoever, but I’m sure that if you give them the same love and attention and respect that you have shown me, then they will be a success and the show will continue being a success. And until we meet again, God bless you and goodbye.
 * His prepared last words. From an ABC News interview, January 2020.

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Keane (band)

Keane are a popular English piano rock band formed in 1997. Its members are Tim Rice-Oxley (pianist/composer/bassist/backing vocalist), Tom Chaplin (lead singer/organist/acoustic guitar), and Richard Hughes (drummer/live backing vocalist).

Hopes and Fears

 * You're aching you're breaking And I can see the pain in your eyes since everybody's changing and I don't know why
 * "Everybody's Changing"

 * I felt the earth beneath my feet sat by the river and it made me complete
 * "Somewhere Only We Know"

 * I know you think I'm holding you down And I've fallen by the wayside now, And I don't understand the same things as you But I do
 * "Bedshaped"

 * Lonely people Tumble downwards And my heart opens up to you When she says she has no time For you now
 * "She Has No Time"

 * The motion keeps my heart running
 * "Can't Stop Now"

 * I saw you Were sick and tired of my wrong turns If you only knew The way I feel I'd really love to tell you But I Can never find the words to say And I don't know why I can't find the words to say I don't know why...
 * "On A Day Like Today"

 * Who ate your heart? You're cold inside You're not the one I hoped for I'll see you on the other side I'll see you on the other side
 * "Untitled 1"

Under the Iron Sea

 * I need a place That's hidden in the deep Where lonely angels sing you to your sleep Though all the world is broken
 * "Atlantic"

 * And why do you say "It's just another day Nothing in my way I don't want to go I don't want to stay So there's nothing left to say?"
 * "Nothing in my way"

 * Where will I meet my fate? Baby I'm a man and I was born to hate And when will I meet my end? In a better time you could be my friend
 * "A Bad Dream"

 * Say a word or two to brighten My day D'you think that you could see your way To lay yourself down? And make it so but you don't want to know You take much more than I'd ever ask for...
 * "Hamburg Song"

 * But I was made the way I am I'm not a stone I'm just a man Lay down your arms And I will lay down mine Rip back the time that we've been wasting
 * "Try Again"

 * Who says a river can't leave its waters? Who says you walk in a line? Who says a city can't change its borders? Who says you're mine?
 * "Broken Toy"

 * You will lie in a deep sleep That's when your prince's crown Cracks and falls down Your castle hollow and cold You've wandered so far From the person you are Let go brother, let go 'Cause now we all know...
 * "The Frog Prince"

is it any wonder i feel uptight is it any wonder I don´t know what right? oh these days...after all the misery you made is it any wonder I feel afraid? Is it any wonder i feel betrayed
 * is it any wonder I´m tired?
 * http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_It_Any_Wonder%3F

Perfect Symmetry

 * I wish I could make sense of what we do Burning down the capitols The wisest of the animals Who are you, what are you fighting for Holy truth, brother I chose this mortal life lived in perfect symmetry And maybe you find, life is unkind and over so soon There is no golden gate There's no heaven waiting for you
 * "Perfect Symmetry"

 * You can hang your hopes On the bedsits masses You can put your faith In the foreign You can tell yourself You're doing your best You could do so much Better than this
 * "Better than this"

 * I wish that I could be In the cellars of the sea And disappear in them Never to be seen again
 * "Black burning heart"

 * I took off my clothes and I ran to the ocean Looking for somewhere to start anew When I was drowning in that holy water All I could think of was you
 * "Love is the end"

 * And love is just our way of looking out for ourselves When we don't want to live alone So step into the vacuum, tear off your clothes And be born again
 * "Pretend that you're alone"

 * When we fall in love We're just falling In love with ourselves We're spiralling
 * "Spiralling"

Night Train (EP)

 * I've never seen such beauty I've never seen such clear skies I've never seen such high hopess I've never seen such tired eyes
 * "Clear skies"

 * In every speck of dust In every universe When you feel most alone You will not be alone
 * "My shadow"

 * Some days, feel my soul has left my body feel im floating high above me like im looking down upon me
 * "Stop for a minute"

 * Time realign just what you got With what you nearly had and what you want You fall asleep and then the moment's gone So open your eyes
 * "Looking Back"

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Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (6th July 1901 - 24th June 1953) Indian educator, humanist and politician.

Quotes

 * If we are to live and grow as a university, one of whose paramount tasks is to not only leaders of thought and action but also workers dedicated to the service of the nation, we cannot sit idle with philosophic concern and let things drift as they may. So far as we are concerned, it is for us to set our house in order. It is for us, and specially the younger generation, Hindus, Moslems and Christians alike, to combine and resolutely stand for the permanent well-being of our province and to rescue her from the deadly stagnation which now seems to envelop her.
 * Speech delivered at Calcutta University Convocation on 2nd March 1935.

 * Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.
 * Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata on 7th December 1935.

 * A criticism with which we have become familiar in this country is that an alarmingly large number of students receiving university education, and the universities are responsible for wastage and unnecessary duplication of teaching arrangements…
 * … Take the whole of British India with a population of two hundred and sixty-three million. India has only sixteen universities and the number of their students will be about one lac and twenty thousand. The total expenditure on higher education in India is less than four crores rupees.
 * Let me now turn to other countries. The British Isles afford a good illustration for comparison from the point of view of population which is about is about forty five million; but the number of universities is as many as sixteen – what we have for the whole of India – and fifty-five thousand students receive instructions under their jurisdiction. About six crores and forty lacs of rupees are spent on higher education only in England and Wales. To universities alone within this area the state annually contributes two crores and twenty-seven lacs of rupees.

 *  Speech delivered at Calcutta University Convocation on 22nd February 1936.

 * Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best means of blending together both the spiritual and the material aspects of life. It must equip its alumni irrespective of caste, creed or sex, with individual fitness, not for its own sake, not for merely adorning varied occupations and professions, but in order to teach them how to merge their individuality in the common cause of advancing the progress and prosperity of their motherland and upholding the highest traditions of human civilisation.
 * Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936.

 * That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.
 * Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936.

 * You have drunk deep at the springs of western knowledge. While you will not hesitate to absorb for your benefit and for the national good the best elements in western culture and thought, you will not in any case permit the destruction of the vital elements of your own civilisation.
 * Speech delivered at Bombay University Convocation on 17th August 1937.

 * It has often been asserted that the polytheistic Hindu failed to establish a spiritual kinship with the monotheistic Muslim who held much that is Indian in scorn and still seeks his spiritual inspiration abroad. How can we say that India ignored the teachings of Islam when we find saints like Nanak and Chaitanya, Namdev and Tukaram, preaching the brotherhood of man and the futility of caste in matters spiritual? Although attempts on Hindu culture and institutions fill the pages of Indian history, how can we assert that Muslims ignored the appeal of Hindu culture when we find Muhammad Jayasi weaving a beautiful romance to illustrate the teachings of Hindu philosophy, when we read the simple devotional hymns of Kabir and Sheikh Farid, who refused to recognise the barriers of caste and creed on the high road to God’s kingdom? “Utter not one disagreeable word,” said Farid, “since the true lord is in all men. Distress no one’s heart for every heart is a precious jewel.” In the same strain did Kabir proclaim, “There is the same God for the Hindu as for the Muslim.” A rejuvenated India found an Akbar to put an end to political chaos and social disharmony and a Shah Jahan to dream a dream in marble the like of which is not to be met in the world.
 * Speech delivered at Patna University Convocation on 27th November 1937.

 * India fell mainly because her people were at the critical hour divided and disorganised. Her influence waned when the forces of disintegration, political and social, were at work. If we left our neighbours alone, we revelled in internal strife which ceased for a time when great kings like Asoka and Akbar ruled over the destinies of India – mighty men, who sought to unite the teeming millions of this vast sub-continent by the bond of a common aspiration and a passionate longing for the eternal code of righteous conduct, charity and understanding. A strong and united India fearing no one and loving all, brought messages of peace and goodwill to distracted world. But as soon as the sceptre dropped from their hands, when the grip over the country was loosened through weak and short-sighted successors, when narrow selfishness and mutual jealousy and distrust overpowered our souls, when local feuds and religious strife raised their ugly heads giving rise to social exclusiveness and moral decadence, unity was lost; freedom, man’s priceless treasure, disappeared; the country broke into fragments and relapsed into a state of conflict and struggle.
 * Speech delivered at Patna University Convocation on 27th November 1937.

 * Freedom consists not only in the absence of restraint but also in the presence of opportunity. Liberty is not a single and simple conception. It has four elements – national, political, personal and economic. The man who is fully free is one who lives in a country which is independent; in a state which is democratic; in a society where laws are equal and restrictions at a minimum; in an economic system in which national interests are protected and the citizen has the scope of secure livelihood, an assured comfort and full opportunity to rise by merit.
 * This freedom, so truly and courageously defined, is not ours today and until this condition is reached, India will never achieve true greatness or happiness, based on the glorious features of her past civilisation.

 * Speech delivered at Patna University Convocation on 27th November 1937.

 * In India also, for century, education imparted through the medium of a foreign language has unduly dominated its academic life and it has now produced a class of men who are unconsciously so denationalised that any far reaching proposal for the recognition of the Indian languages as the vehicle of teaching and examination up to the highest University stage is either ridiculed as impossible or branded as reactionary. But I plead earnestly for the acceptance of this fundamental principle not on account of any blind adherence to things that I claim as my own but out of a firm conviction that the fullest development of the mind of a learner is possible only by this natural approach and also that by this process alone can there be a great revival of the glory and richness of the Indian languages.
 * Speech delivered at Agra University Convocation on 23rd November 1940.

 * I would also ask you to fulfil in an abundant measure your obligation for the revival of the glory of Hindu culture and civilisation, not from a narrow or bigoted point of view but for strengthening the very root of nationalism in this country. In this great land of ours where twenty-eight crores of Hindus live, the word Hindu sometimes stinks in the nostrils of many a son of India.
 * Speech delivered at Benaras Hindu University Convocation on 1st December 1940.

 * Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.
 * Speech delivered at Benaras Hindu University Convocation on 1st December 1940.

 * What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.
 * Speech delivered at Gurkula Visvavidyalaya Convocation on 25th April 1943.

 * The very system of education which was deemed essential for forging bonds of unbroken alliance with the British power succeeded in unleashing revolutionary ideas and thoughts, which ultimately helped to throw off the yoke of alien rule in India. If we take a dispassionate view of what happened during the last one century, we must acknowledge that this has been an era in which good has been mixed with evil. The contact between the Indian mind and western thought and civilisation did not enslave the soul of India. In every domain of thought, in arts and architecture, in science, in history, philosophy and letters, in social services and in religious thought, great Indians gave their best, maintaining their stamp of originality as well as imbibing and assimilating fruits of western skill and knowledge. Though the number of Indians affected by such spread of knowledge was comparatively small, many of them assumed a much needed political leadership and became the instruments of agitation and mass movements, leading ultimately to the political liberation of their country. The cultural Renaissance preceded and created the silent Revolution.
 * Speech delivered at Delhi University Convocation on 13th December 1952.  (Source: Educational Speeches by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, 1959, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012)

 * [Nehru once told Mookerjee: "We will crush you!"... He replied:] We will crush this crushing mentality.
 * Cited by A.B. Vajpayee and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.158

 * A nation that fails to take pride in its past achievements or to take inspiration therefrom, can never build up the present or plan for the future. A weak nation can never attain greatness.
 * Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan.

 * ‘He knows much better than even myself the life of misery, shame and humiliation which these millions of Hindus in East Bengal are being forced to live. He said in the course of his speech that whatever happens, India will never agree to any discrimination being made in reference to South Africa, whether it is based on race or religion. When people who had their loyalty fixed upon undivided India, who made Indian freedom possible, and today also naturally look to India for protection and help in emergency, are forced to live in an atmosphere of insecurity and misery and humiliation, then, what is India’s policy in respect of them? Are we so weak as to merely watch and appeal?’
 * quoted in Arun Shourie - Self-Deception _ India's China Policies_ Origins, Premises, Lessons-Harper Collins (2013) ch 4.

Quotes about Shyama Prasad Mookerjee

 * His religion was not of the narrow kind. He was catholic in his sympathies and broad-minded in his outlook. Patriotism is not merely love of the land in which we are born; it is respect for the ideals by which we are sustained. That man has a spiritual dimension, that its development can take place in various ways, that we should have respect for all these ways are some of the cardinal features of Indian tradition. It is Indian and not merely Hindu. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee was an ardent advocate of these great ideals.
 * Dr. S. Radhakrishnan in Foreword to the “Educational Speeches” of Dr. Shyamapasad Mookerjee.

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Michelle Kwan (Simplified Chinese: 关颖珊; Traditional Chinese: 關穎珊; pinyin: Guān Yǐngshān; Cantonese: Gwāan Wihngsāan; born July 7, 1980) is an American figure skater and media celebrity who has won nine U.S. championships, five world championships, and two Olympic medals. She has remained competitive for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered to be one of the greatest figure skaters of all time despite having never won an Olympic gold medal.

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 * At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.

 * As a child, I'd wonder, 'When I die, will people still remember me 1,000 years later?' And without the gold medal … Well, the Olympics are the ultimate achievement in my sport. At times I think, 'Why should I push myself all those long hours in the rink?' But then I think, 'How will I ever know how good I could have been?' I want to be the Michael Jordan of my sport.

 * [Responding to her 9th US Championships title]

 * It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.

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Life's a bubble;dance before it pops - Lauri

1. Graphically this page does not convey ideas as clearly as it could... too much bolding is distracting. 2. There's a lot more Alan Watts quotes that can be had... Additionally the "attributed" section has a poor feeling to it. I have lots of podcasts in his voice where he says some really amazing things. Why must those be attributed? Can anyone find transcripts of those podcasts? What about the numerous books he's written. I feel Watts is quite an important philosopher to the West, and ought to have more devoted in Wiki to understanding what he's talking about. Some of the attributed quotes will only confuse people out of context.

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 * Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article : 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, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Alan Watts. --Antiquary 17:51, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Life is a game, the first rule of which is that IT IS NOT A GAME.
 * on Hinduism

 * There’s something a lot more to you than you think there is. The real you is the Self. The Self of the universe.

 * The only real crime is that you won't admit that you are God.

 * Beyond positive and negative, what is reality?

 * Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

 * How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

 * I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. What we really are is, first of all, the whole of our body. And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Obviously a body requires air, and the air must be within a certain temperature range. The body also requires certain kinds of nutrition. So in order to occur the body must be on a mild and nutritive planet with just enough oxygen in the atmosphere spinning regularly around in a harmonious and rhythmical way near a certain kind of warm star. That arrangement is just as essential to the existence of my body as my heart, my lungs, and my brain. So to describe myself in a scientific way, I must also describe my surroundings, which is a clumsy way getting around to the realization that you are the entire universe. However we do not normally feel that way because we have constructed in thought an abstract idea of our self.

 * I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

 * It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas this Oriental civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness.

 * Light shines in darkness because what else could it shine in?

 * Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

 * Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

 * Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

 * Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

 * Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

 * The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. When we look through our telescopes and microscopes, or when we just look at nature, we have a problem. Somehow the idea of God we get from the holy scriptures doesn't seem to fit the world around us, just as you wouldn't ascribe a composition by Stravinsky to Bach. The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. It's hard to conceive of the author of one as the author of the other.

 * The idea of nothing has bugged people for centuries, especially in the Western world. We have a saying in Latin, Ex nihilo nihil fit, which means "out of nothing comes nothing." It has occurred to me that this is a fallacy of tremendous proportions. It lies at the root of all our common sense, not only in the West, but in many parts of the East as well. It manifests in a kind of terror of nothing, a put-down on nothing, and a put-down on everything associated with nothing, such as sleep, passivity, rest, and even the feminine principles. But to me nothing — the negative, the empty — is exceedingly powerful. I would say, on the contrary, you can't have something without nothing. Image nothing but space, going on and on, with nothing in it forever. But there you are imagining it, and you are something in it. The whole idea of there being only space, and nothing else at all is not only inconceivable but perfectly meaningless, because we always know what we mean by contrast.

 * To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

 * Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware of the unknown self — if you become aware of it — the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, "Why, that's me!" And in knowing that, you know that you never die. You are the eternal thing that comes and goes that appears — now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown — and so it goes, forever and ever and ever.

 * We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

 * We are all basically scams and if you haven’t found that — you are very unconscious. I know all sorts of people who are full of outward love, but of course it always turns up that they need money. And where it comes to money, the virtue flies out of a window.

 * When no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

 * You can't get rid of your hallucination of being an ego by an activity of the ego. Sorry, but it can't be done . . . If you try to get rid of your ego with your ego you will just end up in a vicious circle. You'd be like somebody who worries because they worry because they worry.

 * Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
 * this expression cannot be located — it had been cited to the The Way of Zen (1957)

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The "Various" section is... well, it's nearly the entirety of the page, so I'd say that it'd be great to break it up at least into two bits-- the obvious division being to pull into a separate section all of the quotes that are about the inseparability of: the self, life, the life-as-game, god, and the universe. I'm thinking of having a try at it, since having them all in one solid section would show how broadly the single idea pervades his work, and can be viewed from different angles; and is distinct in quality and quantity from, say, his social criticism. Of course, I wouldn't remove any quotes, just move them. Sburke 06:08, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Creating "subjective" sub-headings is generally discouraged here — a more appropriate set of divisions which is used where such sections as this have become overly long is division by dates or eras — as has been done with a few of the more extensively quoted politicians, and recently with Albert Einstein — I might do this as a non-controversial edit shortly — am presently reviewing recent changes that have occurred while I was away. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 08:45, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I hadn't even looked at the page prior to commenting, but there are perhaps many quotes that could be headed under sections for different works — I have several of his books immediately available in my library, and might delve into them for more material to fill out a few sections sometime this week; after that, if there is still a clear need for chronological divisions I might add these. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 08:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

 * Thank you for moving all those unsourced quotes! Anyway, that huge block of them just rubbed me the wrong way, in every way.  If any of the quotes strike me as gems, I'll go hammer on Google Books for them again.

 * But on to other biz: thank you for pointing out that subjectivity in headings is discouraged; because as I think across quotes pages I've read before, I remember boggling over how the willy-nilly headings did vastly more harm than good.

 * So I understand why it is generally discouraged.

 * But I think that Watt's work over the years is exceptional in that each lecture/book has a topic, but is often linked with the central theme of his larger work: the unity of self and everything else. This is an unusual situation, compared to typical authors' books which are either the same thing over and over again, or are each about the book's one topic and that's pretty much it.  Instead, he is generally (well, prototypically!) a sort of topic-plus-one, or, if you will, topic-plus-One!

 * I am not, in the least, speculating or handwaving here: some days ago, I hardcopied the whole web page of quotes and sat down with it and had a try at going through and marking which ones were about self-and-everything. I was quite surprised by how little a sense of subjectivity was involved: only a few got a "maybe".

 * I think that unifying that one topic, self-as-everything, will benefit the whole Watts entry (in a way that a sheerly per-work classification would leave scattered), and that the other, per-work) sections would benefit from having the that topic's particular topic more focused.

 * (As to what to call the self-and-everything section, I'm quite stymied, but we'll wing it- nothing is cast in stone here. Wax maybe?)

 * (I was looking for something to do tonight... I guess. It beats doing the dishes.)

 * I'll put in anchors, for at least two reasons I can think of: we can discuss a quote by its anchor name; and that people can link to it externally by its anchor name (in anticipation of that glorious day when Wikipedia makes these anchors somehow visible... or are they and I just don't have some switch turned on?)

 * With everything in their current place but anchors inserted, then I'll precipitate out the self-as-everything stuff.

 * I've had to do this before, with authors whose books I've edited. ("Why do you keep discussing database normalization in a dozen little scattered sections instead of in one section we can put in an appendix or in chapter one?")

 * I'm glad that we can confer on this-- it's deep and complicated issues that we're trying to organize in ways optimally helpfully for the reader, and that's something that Watts strugged with for years upon years. 05:49, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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 * What is government? Government is the boot. The boot steps here and there, careful to avoid a blade of grass, to nurture it, coddle it, water it. The boot spots a snail heading toward its grass - slowly, surely. The boot smashes down on the snail and twists and laughs at its squelching noises, its last grasp for breath. The boot seeks a new snail - heading slowly toward the blade, sometimes simply minding its own business entirely - and smashes it too, like the first. The boot goes on and on - smashing, twisting, smashing, twisting - until finally it tires too of the blade of grass. The boot stops for only a moment and twists itself back down toward these carcasses lying about its yard. 'How sad,' it says to itself, 'that some otherworldly spirit, possessing me, could do this!' It goes to take a step, lets down onto the ground, and feels a dead snail. It instantly picks itself up, feeling proud - not that it will not stomp the snails in the future, but that it at least is starting to feel remorse for their deaths. It smashes the shells and bodies of hundreds of thousands of millions of snails, only to understand its weakness as originating from someplace else entirely; and then it has the audacity to smash even more.

 * How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAiq8S0T2A

 * In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest; and there would be composers who only wrote finales. People go to concerts only to hear one crashing chord - because that’s the end. Same way in dancing—you don’t aim at a particular spot in the room; that’s where you should arrive. The whole point of the dancing is the dance. Now, but we don’t see that as something brought by our education into our everyday conduct. We’ve got a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression. It’s all graded—and what we do is we put the child into the corridor of this grade system, with a kind of "c’mon kitty kitty kitty…". And yeah, you go to kindergarten, and that’s a great thing, because when you finish that, you’ll get into first grade. And then c’mon, first grade leads to second grade, and so on… And then you get out of grade school you go to high school—and it’s revving up, the thing is coming… Then you’re going to go to college, and by jove then you get into graduate school, and when you’re through with graduate school, you’ll go out to join the world. And then you get into some racket where you’re selling insurance. And they’ve got that quota to make. And you’re going to make that. And all the time, this thing is coming, it’s coming, it’s coming—that great thing, the success you’re working for. Then when you wake up one day about forty years old, you say "My God! I’ve arrived! I’m there!" And you don’t feel very different from what you always felt. And there's a slight letdown, because you feel there's a hoax. And there was a hoax. A dreadful hoax. They made you miss everything. By expectation. Look at the people who live to retire, and put those savings away. And then when they’re sixty-five, and they don’t have any energy left, they’re more or less impotent, they go and rot in an old people’s “senior citizens” community. Because we’ve simply cheated ourselves, the whole way down the line. We thought of life by analogy was a journey, was a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end. And the thing was to get to that end. Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29atSZKbmS4 Audio Lecture "The Human Game"

 * ‘In terms of the great Oriental philosophies, man’s un-happiness is rooted in the feeling of anxiety which attends his sense of being an isolated individual or ego, separate from “life” or “reality” as a whole. On the other hand, happiness – a sense of harmony, completion, and wholeness – comes with the realization that the feeling of isolation is an illusion. [... This order of happiness] is not a result to be attained through action, but a fact to be realized through knowledge. The sphere of action is to express it, not to gain it.’‘The Meaning of Happiness explains that the psychological equivalent of this doctrine is a state of mind called is “total acceptance,” a ‘yes-saying to everything that we experience, the unreserved acceptance of what we are, of what we feel and know at this and every moment.’
 * Alan Watts, The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East. http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/12/03/alan-watts-fan-club/

 * Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, 'My goodness, I've just discovered that I'm God,' they'll laugh and say, 'Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

 * "I am a son of God," well there’s the whole thing in a nutshell. If you read the King James Bible… You will see in italics, in front of the words "son of God," THE "son of God." Most people think the italics are for emphasis. They’re not. The italics indicate words interpolated [as preference] by the translators. You will not find that in the Greek. In the Greek it says, a son of God. It seems to me here perfectly plain. That Jesus has got it in the back of his mind that this isn't something peculiar to himself. So when he says, "I am the Way, no Man comes to the Father but by me." This "I am" this "Me" is the divine in us. We are sons of, or of the nature of God. Manifestations of the divine. This discovery is the gospel. That is the Good News. But this has been perpetually repressed throughout the history of Western religion…
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAiq8S0T2A

 * Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t.

 * Everything that we're doing to try to improve the world was a success in the short run- made amazing initial improvements. But in the long run, we seem to be destroying the planet, by our very efforts to control and improve it. And it strikes me that that is because we are really too simple minded to understand what we're doing when we interfere with the natural world strongly and on a massive scale. We don't really interfere with it, because that would suggest that we are something different from it, something outside, but I think what we're doing is we are understanding it in terms of languages, numbers, in terms of a logic which is too simple for the job, too crude for the job. To begin with, we understand everything in terms of words or numbers and they're stretched out in lines, and our eyes have to scan those lines in order to understand them. But when I scan this view, I don't do it line by line by line, I see the whole thing at once, I take it in as if it were a wide-angle lens. But when I try to understand the world through literature and mathematics, I have to scan the lines. You know, that is why it takes us so long to get educated in school: I have to scan and organize miles and miles of print. And that takes us twenty years or more, to get through it. But life happens, changes go on too rapidly for that. Because you see in the world, everything is happening everywhere all together at once. And meanwhile we with out myopic little minds are working it out step by step.

 * You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

 * We seldom to realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.

 * How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?
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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) was Chief of Staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1871 and then of the Great General Staff (GGS) from 1871 to 1888. He was an architect of Germany's Wars of Unification (1864–71). He is often referred to as Moltke the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew, Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke.

Quotes

 * The tactical result of an engagement forms the base for new strategic decisions because victory or defeat in a battle changes the situation to such a degree that no human acumen is able to see beyond the first battle. In this sense one should understand Napoleon's saying: "I have never had a plan of operations." Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.
 * Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.
 * "On Strategy" (1871)/"Über Strategie" (1871), as translated in Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings (1993) by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, p. 92; German collected in: Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, H.13 (1890), hier zitiert nach: Militārische Werke, Band 2, Teil 2. Mittler & Sohn Berlin 1900. S. 291 books.google
 * Paraphrased variants:
 * No plan survives contact with the enemy.
 * Paraphrased in The Swordbearers : Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War (1963) by Correlli Barnett, p. 35
 * No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
 * As quoted in Donnybrook : The Battle of Bull Run, 1861 (2005) by David Detzer, p. 233

 * Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations.
 * "On Strategy" (1871), as translated in Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings (1993) by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, p. 124
 * Variants:
 * War is a matter of expedients.
 * As quoted in "Nothing Went According To Plan" by Jim Lacey in Time magazine (15 April 2003)
 * If in war, from the beginning of the operations, everything is uncertain except such will and energy as the commander carries in himself, there cannot possibly be practical value for strategy in general principles, rules derived from them and systems built up upon the rules. … Strategy is a system of expedients. It is more than science, it is the translation of science into practical life, the development of an original leading thought in accordance with the ever-changing circumstances.
 * As quoted in Government and the War (1918) by Spenser Wilkinson

 * We may add that the Poland of the fifteenth century was one of the most civilised states of Europe.
 * 'Poland. A historical sketch'

 * The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. The Jews always consider an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides.
 * See The Jews by Zuhdī Fātiḥ

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